[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:39:16 -0800
Hi Donna,
I personally, think it is a great idea. I have been disheartened
lately at the number of fair and good submissions on the step 1 page
awaiting validation. Chances are that a rescan of a book raited fair
would take less time than actually fixing a scan of less than
excellent quality.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 07:22 AM 1/12/2008, you wrote:
Hi all.
I apologize in advance if this suggestion ruffles feathers, but it
is made in the spirit of getting excellent quality books into the collection.
I am one of the volunteers who believes that "validating" a book
shouldn't involve rewriting it because the scan is poor. There are
some books which have strange formatting or difficult tables and
charts or other things that typically don't scan well and the only
way to get such books into the collection is in fact for a very
patient validator to go through the whole book and fix problematic
errors that a rescan won't fix.
However, there are a lot of books on the step one download page that
are just straightforward text, fiction or nonfiction, that should
scan with no problems, but are rated as fair. In my opinion, it is
a waste of volunteer time and effort to have a validator make these
scans passable.
So here's my alternative. If I, or any other scanner, obtains a
copy of a book that is currently awaiting validation and rated fair,
would it be appropriate for us to download the fair copy, reject it,
and then upload a better scan of the same book?
Thoughts? Ideas? No rotten tomatoes please!
Donna
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