[bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofing the impossible proof
- From: "Aaron Cannon" <cannona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:19:33 -0500
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Hi Monica.
I believe that, were we to create such a site, we could potentially attract
many more volunteers. It takes a special kind of someone to agree to proof
an entire book. It's a lot easier to get someone to commit to a single
page.
Also, the books that come from O'reilly Media are converted from Docbook and
they retain some section information, though page information seems to be
lost. I'm not sure if that is due to the publisher or Bookshare.
I also wonder if Bookshare mightn't be willing to simply accept well
formatted daisy books from such a project, and bypass the conversion issues
altogether.
Aaron
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From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:55 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofing the impossible proof
Hi, Aaron. I like your suggestion, or at least the theory behind it.
Our pool of sighted volunteers is fairly small, and that's what would
be needed for this project as you've described it. Bookshare would
also need to build a system to let more than one volunteer work on a
project. I do know that Bookshare is planning to spend more time on
providing reference material as the education grant period matures.
Jim touched on that briefly in his speech last November in the Friends
Of Bookshare chat room. I imagine they would need to work on updating
their daisy converter first since the converter they have right now
wouldn't be of much help in creating a document with navigation
struckture beyond the page level. Navigating a dictionary or
encyclopedia by page only sounds like a recipe for frustration. I
don't work for Bookshare, so what I'm writing here is only a somewhat
educated guess. (smile) I do agree that we need access to good
reference materials that we can use portably, especially when we're
reading but can't go online. I'll be cheering when Bookshare finds a
way to solve this puzzle.
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Monica Willyard
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