Some good news! I have talked with engineering about the quality reports and
the ways that all of you use the reports and the spell check function. We will
be working on making the function available again for the volunteer submission
process! However the reports will not be showing up in the live collection
With that said, we are not sure when this function will be available again.
There were several things about the quality reports that were adversely
affecting the Bookshare system, so we cannot just turn the function back on.
Our engineers will need to rebuild the function, so that it is available
specifically for volunteer use and ensure the old issues will not resurface
again.
I will keep everyone posted on the progress of the quality reports. Thank you
to everyone for providing such helpful feedback for us to be able to make a
case for reinstating the quality reports and spell check.
Vanessa
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on behalf of Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:12 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: No Quality Report
I like the quality report too, but my reason might be more of a comment on my
own insecurities rather than on its usefulness. The first time I uploaded a
book I had scanned I was very unsure of what I was doing. When I found the link
to the misspelled words I used it and looked for words that were specific to
the book I was uploading, like names of characters or other words that would be
unlikely to appear in other books. When I found them I was reassured that I was
doing the upload properly. The second time I uploaded one I did the same thing.
And I am still doing it. I can assure you that not once have I ever uploaded
the wrong book, but somehow I get reassurance from looking at that list of
misspelled words anyway. Sometimes it is a little disheartening too. I
meticulously check my scans for scanning errors and correct them. Yet, I have
never uploaded a book that once I looked at the list of misspelled words I did
not find errors that I had missed. By the time I get that far I am usually
really tired of working on the book, so I am not about to abort the upload
procedure and go back to make the corrections. I decide at that point that the
proofreader ought to have a little correcting to do, so in that way it doesn't
really help me either. In other words, like so many things, it is something
that I like without having any real good reason to like it. In that way it is
like the most popular list and the newly added list. By no means would I choose
my reading material based on the fact that a lot of other people are choosing
it and not on the basis that it had just been added to the collection, but
somehow I feel compelled to peruse those lists every day anyway.
On 3/14/2016 3:58 PM, Lori Castner (Redacted sender loralee.castner for DMARC)
wrote:
I found the quality report to be helpful.
Lori C.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john.falter
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 12:53 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: No Quality Report
That's not acceptable!!!
The BookShare spell checker accumulates errors and puts them in a table--one
line for each type of misspelling.
MsWord finds them one at a time--often thousands.
On 3/14/2016 2:13 PM, Vanessa Wai wrote:
I followed up with our engineering team about the quality check function in
Bookshare. The quality report numbers from the quality check did not have very
much meaning, so a decision was made to disable it. Unfortunately, spell check
has also been disabled because it was part of the quality check function. We
are asking volunteers to run spell check within the editor that they are using
to proof the RTF prior to submitting books to Bookshare.
We apologize for not notifying you about this change earlier and for any
concern and frustration it caused. Please let me know if you have any
additional questions.
Vanessa
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandra Ryan
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 6:58 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: No Quality Report
Hi Evan,
I uploaded three books on Thursday or Friday and got the very same thing.
Frankly, I didn't know if they would go through, but they did. It's
disconcerting, for sure!
Sandi
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 3:06 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] No Quality Report
Hey Guys,
I submitted a book just now, but for what I think is the first time ever, I
didn't get a quality report when I uploaded it, just the generic text about
what makes a book get an Excellent rating and so on; but nothing about how many
misspellings it found, nor how many page breaks. Anyone else seen that?
Evan
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