[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult rating
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:23:35 -0500
Of course, the problem of adding classification notes in the long
synopsis is that:
1. They can occupy precious real-estate.
2. They may be written in non standard forms or difficult to understand
abbreviated forms.
I suggest that in the long-awaited and hopefully eventual revamp of the
Bookshare site, the annotations we have discussed can be added to a book
record during book approval automatically simply throu a group of related
combo-boxes. Thus the selection box:
Violence could have values:
none.
some violence.
Violence.
Extreme violence.
based on appropriate word counts performed by the system, with the usual
manual overrides allowed
A similar box could be used for sexual words.
Guido
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Guido D. Corona
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IBM Research,
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"Paula Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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I agree. What would be wrong with simply adding a phrase like "some
strong language" to the Long Synopsis? That would be much quicker than
waiting till the book becomes part of the collection, and then writing a
review.
I thought the synopses were related to the content of a book, while
reviews relate more to someone's opinion about the book. If that's
correct,
then it does seem appropriate to add brief notations about violence,
profanity or sexual content to a synopsis.
Regards,
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult rating
> Not to be argumentative, well, maybe, <smile> But I'm wondering why
descriptions related to adult content of the type we've been discussing
should go into a review and not into the longer synopsis. I see one
problem
> with that approach. The validator or submitter who had the concern might
not be able to access the book once published. We do have volunteers who
are
not elligible to download the books after publication. Also,
> people use to web braille and tb topics and braille book review are use
to
seeing those content disclaimors posted with the book descriptions. I know
there is no mechanism for a separate review on such services, of
> course. but it seems to me that you'd want these concerns more
accessible.
If somebody sees a synopsis and thinks a book looks good, they may not
bother to read somebody's review, since they're already
> convinced they want to download it, based on the synopsis, or just the
author.title, without benefit of needing to read the review. Just some
food
for thought and a possible change of policy.
> mary
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