The scanning instructions in the Scanning/Proofing Manual still has a link
to a document called Books Being Processed by Outsourcers and Publishers.
It is here
https://wiki.benetech.org/download/attachments/29823147/3.0_2010-11-02_Bks+p
rocessed+thu+Outsourcers+and+Pubs.txt?version=1&modificationDate=12887292798
92
There is no longer any way to see when it was last updated, and there's a
lot of really old stuff on it. The modification date in the address used to
make sense--now it doesn't.
For what it's worth...
Deborah
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Outsourcers
I don't think it is a foregone conclusion that just because one series
title has been done by an outsourcer that the rest of the series will
be. However, that does bring up a good question. We used to have a list
called the master list. It was an earlier version of the books being
scanned list. It was one of Bookshare's wikis, so it was hard to
navigate with a screen reader. It supposedly listed all books being
worked on by both volunteers and outsourcers. The last time I saw it, it
seemed to be neglected. That is, it was out of date. As far as I know,
it might still be around, but if it is I no longer have a link to it. I
may have lost that when my old computer went kaput. Is it still around?
I never heard an announcement that it was being discontinued. Whether it
is or not it would be good to have something like it. We have the books
being scanned list so that we will not start working on a book that
someone else is working on, but we don't have a way to know what the
outsourcers are working on. I can imagine why it was not being kept up
to date though. When the books being scanned list was started we were
told that we should send an email to the same address that we send
announcements that we are going to scan a book to announce that our book
had entered the collection so that it could be removed because Bookshare
did not have the resources to keep checking the newly added books
against the books being scanned list. If that is the case then I would
suppose that it would be hard to keep track of which books the
outsourcers had done that had entered the collection too. I do know,
though, that I once ordered a book with the intention of scanning it and
on the day it arrived I did one more check of the collection to find out
that it had been added only the day before from an outsourcer. That was
before the master list, but if that master list had been in existence
then I could have saved myself from ordering the book.
On 8/23/2012 2:53 PM, Gary Petraccaro wrote:
I was thinking about doing the Collegium sequence from Mercedes
Lackey, but it seems an outsourcer has done the first volume. Can I
assume that the others will also be done and where can I find out
what's in the pipeline so I don't waste more of my time? I appologize
if this question has been asked lots of times.
Thanks in advance.
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