[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Temporary Solution
- From: "Julia" <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:21:42 -0500
Hi Monica.
I like your solution.
Julia
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Willyard
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:28 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Temporary Solution
Hi everyone. I've been thinking about Julie Carpenter's post all night. It
has really bothered me because while she is correct about copyright law,
Bookshare's existing tools and their words seem so out of touch with what we
need to do to get books proofread. I think I have a temporary solution, the
equivalent of a band-aid. It should satisfy Bookshare. Will it work for us
volunteers too? You'll need to decide if it's worth doing.
Under the new site where we do things now, the submitter cannot download her
book to do anything to it once it's in the proofreading queue. She can't
replaced garbled or missing pages, even if it would take just a minute or two.
Nor can a third volunteer supply missing pages for a proofreader using the
Bookshare site itself. That's why missing pages are usually emailed. How would
it be if the submitter rescanned the missing content and submitted it as if it
were a book, putting a hold for the proofreader in the title. It could be
titled something like "Hold for Monica Missing Pages." I would know to get that
file and insert its contents into the book I'm working on. Then I'd reject the
submitted file that contains only the missing pages.
The big downside here is that the proofreader must have an open slot on
his/her queue to be able to download the file of missing pages. So it would
take some deliberate planning, and people would need to really respect the
holds on files so that someone's missing pages don't just disappear.
This might make a little extra work for the staff, but we'd be following
Bookshare's policies. It would definitely make more work for us, and that's why
I say it's a temporary solution. It's a band-aid, not a permanent answer. We
would need to advocate for the Bookshare developers to fix the site to let the
submitter or another volunteer add missing content legally without creating a
fake book. It can be done if the staff is willing to make it happen. The
technology exists, so it's not like asking Bookshare to build a new site.
They'd just need to change a module of code, not the entire framework.
How do you feel about this solution? Is it worth a try?
Monica Willyard
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