Both the suggestion that submitters and validators give email addresses, the numbering of bookshare volunteers to preserve their anomimity and retain communications and the adding of notes to a book placed back on step 1 are suggestions made by me and other volunteers for at least the past year. Hopefully when engineering gets more geared up and when somebody realizes that we really to need better official "tools" some of these changes will be mandated.
In the meantime, I work with those submitters who provide this kind of feedback.
E. At 03:52 PM 12/17/2007, you wrote:
The things you suggest would be a good start. I especially like the exchange of email addresses and the ability to place notes on a book--something other than comments. However, there needs to be a way for validator and scannor to share work on a book together. That means some way for the two people to share a book. The quickest way would be for people to be allowed to email a book back and forth as needed without having their bookshare status jeopardized. If that's not possible, perhaps there could be a step one and a half where a validator could leave a book for someone else to pick up, work on, and replace on step one and a half, or move on to step two if it's complete. No bookshare staff involvement would be necessary, but everything would be above board with no fears of us sharing books with other people. ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 1:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: taming step 1 into a smaller listI have worked closely with a submitter when validating a book. I do not know what you have in mind by better co-operation between submitter and validator though some improvement certainly is possible. Having a email listed for a submitter is truly necessary. Having a validator's email listed when he or she takes a book seems also critical. It would allow a submitter and validator to communicate effectively if bookshare lists email when those people are working on a book. Being able to list notes about books on step 1 would also assist future validators. E. At 01:56 PM 12/17/2007, you wrote:This is why bookshare should give us a way to jointly work on a book. Everyone knows that we are not trying to breach any agreement, we are just trying to do our jobs. The present method of having one person scan and another person validate a book without ever jointly working together,limits our ability to do a good job. Just my thoughts. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:55 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: taming step 1 into a smaller listJim people have told you over and over that sending files "partially validated" or otherwise between bookshare borrowers violates bookshare's agreements and yours. E. At 06:59 AM 12/17/2007, you wrote:Hi, You may be able to make this happen by releasing a book and sending the partially validated file to someone who is willing to finish it, then get the original and replace it with the validated one. Jim James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810 "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead "Jamie Yates, CPhT" <jamieyates@veriz To on.net> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: cc bksvol-discuss-bo unce@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject g [bksvol-discuss] Re: taming step 1 into a smaller list 12/14/2007 06:26 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@fr eelists.org I would think if you give up working on the book, you give up the credit. But there are just cases where a validator has to give up the work. Maybe he or she is sick, but why should all of the inital work be lost? Maybe there are personal circumstances where the validator needs time off. Maybe there are circumstances in the book where the validator can do most of the work, but then the rest has to be finished by someone who can look at the print book. The system as it is now doesn't allow for the latter to happen because you can't share the file. And lots of times I am happy to add finishing touches to a carefully validated book, but I would not want to be responsible for validating the entire thing. With an option to release the book but save the changes, more of that kind of work would be possible. Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading - Snipped in the Bud by Kate Collins I'm an eBay affiliate! Please click my link before you bid: Find hard to find items on eBay! Buy.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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