[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:28:25 -0600
Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Hi Sharon,
Quite obviously, to me at least, technical terminology would be taken into
consideration, and both submitters and validators can indicate this in the
comments. If I took a book with a lot of mediccal terma in it, for
instance, I wouldn't expect the system rating to be as high, and when I
finished validating it and uploaded it, I would indicate this in the
comments field so the admin people would see it.
Hope that helps,,
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sharon
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
I have some questions about this. I'm delighted first of all! But how does
the 98.6-99.3 rating compare to k1000? Also, if we are scanning books with
lots of words that are not in the dictionary, such as books with Greek,
Hebrew, and/or Latin transliterations, proper names, Biblical names, etc.,
or medical or psychological terms which are not well known, and we have read
the book word for word, how do we indicate that, and how does that effect
the rating? Also, I routinely add words to k1000 dictionary so my rating
would be higher than say the rating of someone who did not add such words. I
am delighted at this change!
Sharon
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Claire O'Brien
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:57 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Dear Bookshare Volunteers:
In our ongoing effort to raise the quality standard of the reading
experience at Bookshare.org, we are happy to announce that 'Fair'
quality scans will no longer be accepted. We feel that in order to honor
our commitment to offer the best reading experience possible for the
print-disabled community, scanned books must now meet the minimum
quality standard of 'Good' (98.6-99.3% words recognized by our quality
rating and dictionary).
Our collection is largely built from our volunteer community, and we
value the contributions from each of our supporters. We hope that this
decision will improve the Bookshare.org experience for both our readers
and volunteers.
For helpful hints on how to produce better scans, please browse the
following resources:
The Volunteer Manual (soon be renamed the Scanning and Validation
Manual): http://www.bookshare.org/web/VMMain.html
Friends of Bookshare web page: www.friendsofbookshare.org
Jake's web page: www.jbrownell.com/bks/
Sincerely,
Claire O'Brien
Collection Development Manager, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
claireo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.bookshare.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
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