[bksvol-discuss] Re: Authors Names and Category Update
- From: "Sue Stevens" <jmu1942@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:57:31 -0500
MMMarissa, I am new at this and find it hard to know how I will know who is
working on what? I mean, I don't want to go through a category or authors
that someone else is doing.. I just don't quite get the drift. Smile.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Authors Names and Category Update
Hi Folks,
Thanks for all of your help on getting a list of garbled authors' names
fixed on Bookshare! I really appreciate your efforts and dedication in
making this service the best that it can possibly be.
I have not gone through and updated or altered the authors or titles of
the books on the site yet. It will be a little bit time intensive and
makes more sense to do when there is a large list to go through.
Carrie, it's my assumption that you're keeping a running list of the
authors' names. I can keep one going as well if you like.
In other Bookshare.org news, we have a new engineering fellow on board
with us to help out with updating and improving the site. A couple
things that we'd like to do is improve our searching interface and
expand the categories section. I will start to keep a list of desired
categories to present to the powers that be when we eventually get to
this task.
In the meantime, if you see books in the "wrong" category (you'll need
to turn on your quotes for that last sentence), let me know as you have
been doing and I'll start to keep a running list of category
improvements as well.
I have a few more updates coming.
All the best,
Marissa
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:37 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fixing garbled authors' names
Yes, I have the list posted a week ago. I'll check with Marissa to see
if
she's fixed them or not.
Carrie
--- socly@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Am I correct in assuming that you have the names that were posted a
week
> or so ago by various people?
> Or has Marissa already fixed those?
>
> Cindy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] fixing garbled authors' names
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:11:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have volunteered to help clean up the Bookshare database, and I'd
> like
> > to ask for some assistance. Marissa commented that sometimes the
same
> > author is listed under several names. I took a quick look and found
> > 'Lawrence Schiller' and 'Lawrence Schiller.' - obviously they're the
> same
> > person, but the database lists them as 2 separate people. If you
know
> of
> > any such mistakes or misspellings of names, could you please let me
> know
> > about them? I'd like to collect as many mistakes as possible, and
> then go
> > to Bookshare and fix them all. I'm hoping there won't be tooooooo
> many,
> > but I just don't know what to expect. Please write me off-list (I
> don't
> > want to clog the discussion group with this) at ckarnos@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Thanks for all your help! Carrie
> >
> >
> >
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