[bksvol-discuss] OT: analogy
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:37:09 -0700 (PDT)
Rick,
At the risk of cluttering people's mailboxes, I can't
resist saying how much I like your analogy. SO often
people's (not here -- in general) aren't quite right,
but yours is clever.
Cindy
--- Rick Ely <ely.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MessageJim,
> First of all, thanks for your direct response here,
> and more, thanks for the job that bookShare is
> doing. Yes to your questions, these improvements
> would be a substantial next step for the production
> process.
>
> There has been talk on this list of fund raising.
> Are there ways that active volunteers might be used
> across the country to facilitate development.
> Shoestrings are the norm for startups, but more
> substantial foot gear is needed for the long march.
>
> Again, thanks,
> Rick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:05 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page numbers and
> headers/footers
>
>
> Hey, I promised my next post would be on this
> topic. Here it is!
>
> Let's talk about the objectives we had in creating
> today's workflow:
> a.. Take a bunch of text file formats as input,
> and get them to RTF
> b.. Create an automated tool to turn the RTF
> into a single XML file
> c.. Use that single source file to create a
> DAISY book, and a BRF book
> d.. Capture page tags and page numbers correctly
>
> e.. Hopefully capture chapter tags
> We weren't able to automatically get chapter tags
> four years ago, and haven't been able to put much
> effort into it since. As many of you know, we
> surveyed our users some time back and got a lot of
> feedback (more than half of our users at that time
> responded) that improving quality was a big deal.
> We've been trying to upgrade all Fair quality books,
> and focusing more on high quality content. We've
> also moved away from accepting books without pages,
> since we regard page numbers as the minimum
> navigation requirement to meet basic quality
> standards.
>
> Rather than getting into the deep discussion of
> whys and wherefores, let me test out an ideal
> solution to make sure I know what people would want:
> a.. On the input side, correct print page
> numbering captured in all of our books
> b.. On the output side, the ability to have
> these print page numbers and headers and footers
> accessible in either DAISY or BRF formats: people
> who don't want them don't see them, and people who
> do want them do see them
> If this worked perfectly, would people be happy?
> By making sure we're clear on the ideal solution, we
> can go back to how we're missing and how to get
> closer to the ideal than we are doing today. The
> timing is good, because we're designing
> Bookshare.org's first overhaul, and we need to know
> where we're going. We already know that we're
> likely to get a much different input stream three
> years from now than we did in the past three years,
> so the input processing workflow is definitely
> getting revisited.
>
> Jim Fruchterman
> President and CEO
> Benetech
>
> 480 California Avenue, Suite 201
> Palo Alto, California 94306 USA
> +1 650 475-5440 extension 106
> Fax: +1 650 475-1066
>
> jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.benetech.org
>
> The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving
> Humanity
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>
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