-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi all. It has bothered me for sometime that Bookshare doesn't have the important reference books that are central to any good library. We have no dictionary, thesaurus, Chicago Manual of Style, and others. Primarily this is due to the fact that these books are huge, and don't scan well. So what are our options? The best option, and one that I hope Bookshare is working on, is getting the text direct from the publisher. However, failing that, we may still be able to scan and proof these books. I would propose borrowing a concept developed by distributed proofreaders, a group working with Project Gutenberg. Basically, volunteers visit a web page which shows an image of a single page from a book, and a textbox with the OCR output for that same page. The proofer then corrects the output and submits it back to the server, all within their web browser. It seems to me that this concept would work just as well for us. Thoughts? Has this been considered and rejected for reasons of which I am unaware? Of course, the other big hurtle would be to ensure that these books were added to the collection with a more advanced navigation structure in the Daisy XML than is typical, otherwise they may end up being quite unusable. What's the use of having a dictionary that is impossible to navigate? Thanks. Aaron - -- Skype: cannona MSN/Windows Messenger: cannona@xxxxxxxxxxx (don't send email to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iEYEAREDAAYFAkicTWcACgkQI7J99hVZuJctuQCZATl97jVtBCvSqbHc+ATmqWY8 +KEAn154ICSxCWdxhLJAC+I9TPpKBPmL =6DlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.