[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:07:38 -0800 (PST)
I haven't submitted in years, literally. Is that an
option for the submitter, too?
I still don't have clear in my mind if the quality
rating given when books are submitted are given by a
bookshare automatic rater or by the submitter. In
either case, you all have brought up some problems. I
still would like to see no rating until it's given by
the validator. That way validators will take books
without being misled one way or another and can fairly
quickly tell, perhaps, if a book is only Fair, by
looking for page breaks and doing a spell-check to see
if there are a lot of junk characters or scannos;
whether all the pages are there if they aren't
numbered would take a little more time, but then the
validator could just release the book if he/she didn't
want to do more, such as check first and last lines of
pages, or decide it looked o.k. to validate.
G.Cindy
--- Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fair Quality Scans: No Longer AcceptedSharon, When a
> validator uploads a book and is given its quality
> rating, he/she has the opportunity at that point to
> raise the rating if it is felt that dialects,
> unfamiliar names, places, etc. are causing too low a
> rating. Jill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sharon
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:04 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans:
> No Longer Accepted
>
>
> I have some questions about this. I'm delighted
> first of all! But how does the 98.6-99.3 rating
> compare to k1000? Also, if we are scanning books
> with lots of words that are not in the dictionary,
> such as books with Greek, Hebrew, and/or Latin
> transliterations, proper names, Biblical names,
> etc., or medical or psychological terms which are
> not well known, and we have read the book word for
> word, how do we indicate that, and how does that
> effect the rating? Also, I routinely add words to
> k1000 dictionary so my rating would be higher than
> say the rating of someone who did not add such
> words. I am delighted at this change!
> Sharon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Claire O'Brien
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:57 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fair Quality Scans: No
> Longer Accepted
>
>
>
>
> Dear Bookshare Volunteers:
>
> In our ongoing effort to raise the quality
> standard of the reading
> experience at Bookshare.org, we are happy to
> announce that 'Fair'
> quality scans will no longer be accepted. We
> feel that in order to honor
> our commitment to offer the best reading
> experience possible for the
> print-disabled community, scanned books must now
> meet the minimum
> quality standard of 'Good' (98.6-99.3% words
> recognized by our quality rating and dictionary).
>
> Our collection is largely built from our
> volunteer community, and we
> value the contributions from each of our
> supporters. We hope that this
> decision will improve the Bookshare.org
> experience for both our readers
> and volunteers.
>
> For helpful hints on how to produce better
> scans, please browse the
> following resources:
> The Volunteer Manual (soon be renamed the
> Scanning and Validation
> Manual):
> http://www.bookshare.org/web/VMMain.html
> Friends of Bookshare web page:
> www.friendsofbookshare.org
> Jake's web page: www.jbrownell.com/bks/
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Claire O'Brien
> Collection Development Manager, Bookshare
> Benetech
> 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
> Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
>
> claireo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> www.bookshare.org
>
> The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving
> Humanity
> A Nonprofit Organization
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>
>
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