[bksvol-discuss] How to Validate
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:51:47 -0800 (PST)
I do hope, Mayrie, that you and Shelley save your
instructions so that you don't have to rewrite them
when newbies have these questions. You both write so
clearly and concisely what has to be done, and I know
it takes time.
Appreciatively,
G.Cindy
Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> You don't need to go online and look up
> copyright info
> unless you think, for some reason, that what is in
> the book is
> questionable. Poorly scanned is the most likely
> problem. You just
> want to make sure that the title page and copyright
> page are in the
> book and legible.
>
> And you don't need to check for electronic
> copies of the
> book anywhere else. I'm not sure why that would
> need to be checked,
> but it doesn't.
>
> Bookshare actually only requires that a few
> things be done
> during validation: varify that all title, author,
> and copyright
> information is present and legible in the book, all
> pages of the text
> must be present, and at least 90% of all page breaks
> must be present
> in the book. However, doing just these few things
> can result in a
> book of uncomfortably poor reading quality being
> included in the
> collection. I'll list below some things that you
> can do to be sure
> that the quality of the book that you validate is
> the best that it
> can be. They seem, I know, like a lot, but do make
> a huge difference
> in the quality of the book.
>
> Run a spell check on the book.
> Make sure that chapter headings which are the first
> line of text on a
> page have above them the page number of the book
> followed by a blank line.
> Remove all running headers. (The Bookshare tools are
> supposed to do
> this, but don't very well. It is more effectively
> done by hand
> during validation.)
> Words which begin on one page and end on the next
> should be moved to
> one page or the other. In other words, eliminate
> end of page hyphens.
> In the most ideal world, both page breaks and page
> numbers should be
> surrounded by blank lines. This means that a page
> should look like this:
> Page break
> Blank line
> Page number
> Blank line
> Text on the page
> Blank Line
> Next page break.
>
> If page numbers appear at the bottoms of pages you
> can either move
> them to the tops of pages and follow the form above,
> which helps when
> navigating to find the actual beginning of a page
> when using the page
> number as search criteria.
> For pages with page numbers at the bottom, the page
> would look like this:
> Page break
> Blank line
> Text on the page
> Blank line
> Page number
> Blank line
> Next page break.
>
> Pages containing chapter headings as the first line
> of text should
> look like this:
> Page break
> Blank line
> Page number
> Blank line
> Chapter heading
> Blank line
> Text on the page
> Blank line
> Next page break.
>
> I know that all of that stuff seems like a lot of
> work. Admittedly,
> it is. But doing those things that I have mentioned
> will allow the
> book of best possible quality to be added to the
> Bookshare
> collection. About the only thing that will result
> in better quality
> than these steps would be to add to the list,
> reading the book from
> cover to cover. Many of us do actually do this. I
> personally don't
> choose to validate books that I am unwilling to read
> from cover to
> cover. But that, like most of this e-mail is not a
> requirement for
> validating a book. It just increases the likelihood
> that the copy of
> the book in the Bookshare collection is the most
> accurate copy that a
> careful human can get.
>
> Don't let all of this stuff scare you off, please.
> There are lots of
> people willing to help you and answer questions.
> And it really is a
> lot of fun, and a great source of personal
> satisfaction to offer to
> the Bookshare collection an excellently scanned and
> proofread copy of a book.
>
> I do hope that I haven't scared you off with all of
> this
> information. But, you did ask.
>
> Peace,
> Mayrie
>
> At 05:10 PM 1/29/2008, you wrote:
> >Hello folks,
> >
> >Some quick questions from a newbie. So when we
> validate the
> >copyright info of a book, do we just check if the
> info is there? Or
> >do we actually go look up the copyright info? And
> things like
> >proprietary materials, I am assuming that we should
> check to see if
> >the title already exists in digital forms
> elsewhere?
> >
> >Maybe I am not looking at the right place on the
> Volunteer manual
> >but I couldn't find a detail list of tasks that I
> should be doing
> >other than the 5 things listed under "Determining
> Whether a Book
> >Should Be Recommended For Approval or Rejection."
> Any wisdom is
> >very much needed.
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >Oh, by the way, I just got this 700 page-long book
> and the "comment
> >history" shows that it had been returnnew so many
> times. Is that
> >good signl? bad sign? normal sign?
>
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