Michael Ciesielski wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Doesn't the Gutenberg Distributed
Proofreaders project already do this
sort of thing?
http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php
Yup, and we're actively working on EB11. At the moment, the following
are posted (finished):
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/200 -- Vol. 1 [*]
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13600 -- Vol. 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Various other parts of many volumes are in progress. If you'd like to
help, visit <http://www.pgdp.net/> and register a new account. You
should probably start with some beginners projects to familiarise
yourself with our Proofreading Guidelines, and then you're welcome to
work on whatever you like, including the current EB volume being
proofed: Vol 6 #3 (Chiton to Cincinnati). While you're there, you can
join Team Wikipedia ;).
Another approach to proofreading is to have it done independently from
the beginning by two different people and using a file compare function
to compare the results. The benefit here is that it reduces the
possibility that one person might be influenced by another's errors.
I looked at the volume 1 material, notably at "Algae", but the
illustrations are not there. How does PG plan to deal with illustrations?
How searchable is the PG version? Would I be able to easily find an
article without downloading the whole volume? The Algae article
includes a "q.v." to "Bryophyta". Does PG anticipate that I* would be
able to follow that link with a simple click of the mouse?
Mark Williamson wrote:
Alternatively, we could store it as images
online. That would take a
lot of bandwidth, but... it would preserve the original much much
better.
When we're working on a particular section, the images are necessarily
stored online. After a project is posted to Project Gutenberg, the
scans are archived to a different server so that they can still be
referred to for corrections. It's planned that One Day the archived
images will be publicly accessible.
I would support something like that.
Ec