[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare & PQ submission
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:18:00 -0400
Hi, Ann. I really like your idea of designating books in the system
that have picture descriptions. It could be useful both in making sure
those descriptions aren't lost and for teachers wanting students to do
assignments with picture descriptions. Your idea may be worth passing
on to Pavi or Carrie for consideration. I think the validaters have a
good idea of which books already have descriptions and could help
Bookshare make a list. I would feel a lot more comfortable with that
process than with the idea of having a Bookshare staff member read
every book in the collection to see if it should be replaced. A staff
member couldn't just use the Bookshare validation tool to tell her if
a book is truly excellent because that tool only looks for obviously
misspelled words. It can't look for the infamous die for the scanno or
the torn for Tom error that plagues some of our books. It also can't
handle the odd names in science fiction and some religious books. So I
think having a designation for books with picture descriptions would
help to preserve books that need it without bogging down the staff to
process nearly 40,000 books.
--
Monica Willyard
Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com
On 8/9/08, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Monica,
>
> Good idea. Talk is cheap. Facts prove generalizations. There ought
> to be a disignation on books with picture descrptions so that people
> will know about it. Maybe something in the title? Oh, lemme see,
> something like The_Wind_in_the_Willows_PD. That would let folks know
> that the book has been specially treated and needs to be kept. Shoot,
> if we can have BSO books, we can have PD books too. Whatcha think?
>
> Regular novels and so on that are submitted by the publishers could
> replace badly scanned books.
>
> What about handwritten passages in books. These do not show up in
> regular printed text. Thinking of the handwriting on the map in Book
> Three of The Harry Potter series. Will publishers make sure these
> things are readable? I had a page like that in one of the Miss
> Zukas's I was doing. Had to get a transcript and add it in.
>
> The concern about tables is valid as well. As the formatting for
> tables and poetry going to be kept?
>
> Ann P.
>
> --
> Ann K. Parsons
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