Michael Ciesielski wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Doesn't the Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders project already do this sort of thing?
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.
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