[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
- From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:48:46 -0600
Fair Quality Scans: No Longer AcceptedBratik you bring up a point. For one
thing if the tool gives a rating that Bookshare wants 98 per cent or higher,
what about the spelling of forn languages that the tool is going to see as
misspelled words. I have a book that will be sumitted in a day or two that
falls into this line of thought. There are a lot of french and spanish words
that I don't know if they turned out or not since don't know the language and
the old style of english.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Pratik Patel
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Hooooooooooray! Since all volunteers are requested to choose book rating,
this is a conscious decision. Now the work of the validator becomes far more
important and easier. If you believe that a book should have a better than a
fair rating, just upgrade the rating and make sure that the comments field has
enough information for either the validator or the administrator.
Pratik
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert tweedy
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:20 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Yes if you get one reject it. As someone said to be fair just look at the
book but if it is too much trouble to fix, bye bye.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Wildcat
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Does this mean I won't have to spend time validating fair scans any
more because that did sound frustrating.
Kenny
----- Original Message -----
From: Estelnalissi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:27 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Dear Claire, Bookshare Staff at Large, and Booksharian Friends,
Ee Ha!
Claire your news is better than fabulous! Bookshare readers and
validators will be spared so much frustration and we'll be giving the books we
prepare for Bookshare, and offer to readers, the respect they are due!
This policy will save so much time and frustration for volunteers who
examined and gave up on fair books or spent countless hours trying to bring
them up to a higher standard. And though it doesn't raise Bookshare's grand
total of books offered, I'm excited because many of us will choose to use some
of that time saved to work on BSO-ing the fair books we already have. Imagine,
we are moving toward a time when the collection will be of such high quality
that subscribers to Bookshare won't have the chance to be disappointed when
they download books.
I know E, and all of the volunteers who have been asking so fervently to
be spared the burden of wasted volunteering and reading effort demanded by
those fair books, will be celebrating! They never gave up asking for this
change and they didn't wish in vain. High five to them!
We can all walk a little taller!
Thank you! Thank you!!!
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Claire O'Brien
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:56 PM
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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