[bksvol-discuss] Re: My nickel's worth--quality control
- From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:23:26 -0700
I only want to point out that giving the ISBN is shown as optional. A
problem encountered in validating that cannot be solved without the print
copy results from missing letters that are obviously at the beginning of
lines where binding is causing a problem. Sometimes one cannot guess what
the word should be, and it is my opinion that the person who scanned that
book never should have submitted it at least without letting Bookshare know
that it would have to be validated with the print copy in hand.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Halperin" <lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] My nickel's worth--quality control
> Ok, I suspect I may get bashed, but here goes anyway:
>
> I wish everyone would just SLOW DOWN. There seems to be this frenzy to
> get books into the collection, and less care on their quality. As a
> braille reader, I know I am in the minority, but my patience for sloppy
> books is low.
>
> When I scan a book I am very careful to send a clean copy up. I don't
> expect the validator to have to do much of anything except make sure no
> corruption of the file has occurred. I am proud of quality over
> quantity.
>
> I have been doing some validating and there have been a few books
> equally clean as those I submit. They are a joy to validate. Most have
> problems. I fix what I can. Books are submitted without the ISBN listed
> (even though it's right there), sections missing, whole messed up pages.
> When I am faced with many blank pages and then text pages run together
> and too many spelling errors and character errors, I feel no guilt to
> reject the book. It's not worth spending so many hours on. Better to get
> it rescanned in a better version. When I finally validate something,
> it's clean and ready to go. Any problems after that are from the
> Bookshare conversion processes.
>
> With over 500 books waiting for validation, I wish there would be a
> moratorium on scanning submissions. When there was too much backlog at
> the Bookshare end, they made a concerted effort to get caught up. It's
> now OUR end that needs the effort, the volunteers.
>
> The two lists, books-volunteer-discuss and books-discuss, are very very
> busy. What if all the time spent reading and writing on the lists was
> spent on validating, for awhile, at least?
>
> What if scanners made an effort to send up better quality? What if
> validators had better quality to start with and so could approve faster
> and cleaner? What if we humans went beyond spellcheck and made sure that
> other errors were caught? Errors such as "form" for "from" and "end" for
> "and" and stuff like that? What if we went for quality over quantity
> for awhile?
>
> Liz in Seattle
>
> Liz Halperin
> Seattle, WA
> lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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