[bksvol-discuss] Re: fair, many errors but legible throughout

From: "Katie Hill" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 16:35:01 -0700
Hi Dave, 

Your comment on using all punctuation is interesting. I have gotten use to
listening to books this way so that I don't miss stray chars and other
little typos. Believe it or not, it is not any different once you start
doing it and you get a better validation. 



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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fair, many errors but legible throughout

Not really, the only time the validator needs to change the rating 
after uploading for approval, is if they disagree with the rating the 
Bookshare software gives the book.  It may be necessary to upgrade a 
book if it contains many words the Bookshare software doesn't 
recognize, as in the case of many foreign language words, or it may 
also be necessary to downgrade a book if missing or incorrect words 
are numerous enough.  The default rating of fair is only given when 
the book is first submitted.  As someone else mentioned, the initial 
rating is quite subjective, as what is excellent to one person may be 
good or fair to another.  I would also add that what may be excellent 
to a reader who only uses speech output, may not be excellent for 
someone reading the book in braille.  Braille output is unforgiving 
with junk characters, whereas speech output may not read them 
depending on what characters they are.  This is one reason that when 
validating a book with speech output, if you are also correcting the 
mistakes, you need to actively search for junk characters.  I suppose 
if you are of a masochistic nature, when validating a book with 
speech, you could have it read all the characters including 
punctuation, but personally, this would also cause me to want to bang 
my head against the wall.

Dave T


At 12:07 AM 5/26/2007, you wrote:
>Yes, I think it's really up to the validator to change
>the rating after he/she validates it, whether he/she
>does a lot to it or whether that isn't necessary
>because the submitted copy is rreally Excellent.
>
>Cindy
>
>--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > >There is one fascet of this discussion that gets a
> > bit lost
> > >here.  Bookshare defaults to the fair designation
> > if the submitter
> > >doesn't change it.  Several of the new books are
> > rated fair and have
> > >no category or synopsis.  That would indicate to me
> > that the
> > >submitter just filled in the mandatory fields.  Our
> > Christian
> > >romance submitter is fond of doing this, and
> > sometimes the text is
> > >in nice shape after all.  Since books don't go
> > through the Bookshare
> > >tools during submission, I take the quality ratings
> > on step 1 with a
> > >rather hefty grain of salt.  I look for the name of
> > the submitter
> > >and groan if it is the "Bookshare volunteer"
> > because then it really
> > >is a game of Russian rulette.  (sigh)
> >
> >
> > "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!" Will
> > Rogers
> > Monica Willyard, rhyami@xxxxxxxxx
> > Add rhyami to your Skype if you'd like to chat.
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