[bksvol-discuss] Re: ways to make bookshare better
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:47:01 -0500
I would like to see the website kept more up-to-date on the volunteer page.
A slew of volunteers do not belong to either list.
Sue S.
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: ways to make bookshare better
Bookshare is evolving. It's web site does not always keep up with the
real time behavior of volunteers and staff.
We have only done this in a few cases.
Please understand, particularly you new folks, that volunteers and
staff are developing procedures rather than having them written in stone.
This is one of them.
E.
At 06:52 PM 9/27/2008, you wrote:
>It does make sense. That which does not make sense is that Bookshare
>mentions only that if there are errors in a book in the collection
>then it has been decided that a re scan must be done without
>mentioning that an easier fix may be available. With this revelation
>the stated Bookshare policy sounds misleading. In a message dated
>9/27/2008 6:43:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Actually there is no contradiction.
>
>There is the necessary step of having a staff member put the book in
>question onto step 1 in rtf format.
>
>What does not work because page breaks and numbers are lost is to
>download a brf or html copy and try to fix that copy up.
>
>Hope the explanation makes sense.
>
>E.
>
>
>At 06:40 PM 9/27/2008, you wrote:
> >If that can be done then what is this requirement that BSO books be
> >entirely new scans? This seems to contradict, at least in part, the
> >stated rationale by Bookshare that books in the collection that need
> >repair be scanned all over. In a message dated 9/27/2008 6:34:35
> >P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >I spoke to Carrie before writing on list.
> >
> >When I want to read a book which is already in the collection and
> >which I suspect I can validate and improve, here is what I do.
> >
> >I ask Carrie to put the original rtf of that book onto step 1 with my
> >name on it.
> >
> >I then validate it as I would any other validation. I upload it and
> >it replaces the copy currently in the bookshare collection.
> >
> >This only fails when the book in the collection is in such rotten
> >shape that it truly needs re-scanning rather than the kind of fixing
> >up I can do as a validator.
> >
> >E.
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