I love those proofreading features, and the new default layout for a book's pages and TOC. Wikisource is becoming AWESOME.
Do we have PGDP contributors who can weigh on on how similar the processes are? Is there a way for us to actually merge workflows with them?
Prof. Greg Crane of The Perseus Project @ Tufts is looking to upload a few score classical manuscripts, and perhaps eventually their whole corpus, into Wikisource -- but they want better multilingual proofreading and annotation tools (which they are also considering developing. Hear, hear!) All of this work needs a bit more visibility.
SJ
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
(Renaming the subject as we've changed topic)
On 23 Jun 2010, at 21:31, Mariano Cecowski wrote:
--- El mié 23-jun-10, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net escribió:
I always think than not using reCaptcha is a shame, as it's a nice way to get people to proofread text in a reasonably efficient way. It would be really nice if someone could create something similar that proofreads OCR'd text from Wikisource... <hint, hint>.
And how do you decide that what was entered is wrong or right?
Better take a look at Project Gutemberg's Distributed Proofreaders[1].
Cheers, MarianoC.-
[1] http://pgdp.net
My understanding is that original text within the reCAPTCHA is shown to several different people; if they agree then the word is counted as correct. Looking at the Wikipedia article, it's a little more complex than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA There's a reason why there are two words to solve during a reCAPTCHA.
What Distributed Proofreaders can do, Wikisource can do - but in a Wiki environment. If you haven't checked out the proofreading features that Wikisource now has, I would encourage you to give them a go, e.g. at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Frederic_Shoberl_-_Persia.djvu/92
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