July 2006 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

Looking for feedback on color image files in html book.
by Andrew Sly 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I have an 1875 picture book to prepare for PG, with 36 pages of color illustrations. There is not much text to go with these illustrations. (The first section is an alphabet, followed by a couple fairy-tale-type stories based on nursery rhymes.) The scans I've made are 8mb each, and when I crop them and convert to png, I can get each one down to just over a megabyte. However, from reading the PG guidelines and looking at a number of other example PG postings, this is still much too large for the purpose of an easily downloadable html file. So, what seems to make sense is to scale down and make some jpg images that would fit better. It would be nice though, to have somewhere to preserve the high-resolution images, even if not at PG. You can see a rough draft, with the first six images included, at: http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~sly/pb.htm Any comments would be welcome... Andrew

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Conference Paper for Electronic Library Markup Language
by Brad Collins 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I while back I mentioned that I would be presenting a paper at the Extreme Markup Language Conference in Montreal in August. The paper is an introduction to BMF (The Burr Metadata Framework) which is a monster markup language which pulls together concepts from the FRBR and Z39.19 (NISO Standard for Monolingual Thesuri) and draws on many concepts from TEI. BMF is designed to provide a framework for building distributed electronic libraries which can be annotated and extended by anyone. A few people expressed interest in reading the paper but I lost the list. So if anyone wants to read the paper drop me a note. It's about 80K zipped. Cheers, b/ -- Brad Collins <brad(a)chenla.org>, Banqwao, Thailand

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Re: 'Lasker's Manual of Chess'
by rnmscott＠netspace.net.au 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Interesting idea. I had never even thought of chess works, despite having actually read this, way back when, I think. How would you do it, with images? Some of them could be pretty big, with lots of board positions. Re-doing them as ascii boards like on old chess servers wouldn't be too much fun, but possible? Richard ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au

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Re: Automated readability scores for PG eBooks
by rnmscott＠netspace.net.au 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Interesting idea, Greg. Amazon has this for some texts, via another method (or two, I think, the names escape me currently, Flesch something or other?) or two, and I think there are cpan modules that do these. A GUTREADABILITY file from these would be interesting/fun. Someone would get an interesting academic project or two out of that perhaps, as well? Riohard ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au

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re: [gutvol-d] New DVD ISO to try
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

greg said: > That's the part that looks like it should be easy, > but actually took me about 25 hours! oh yeah, i'm well aware that it's harder than it looks. i'll have a few questions for you about it, tomorrow... for today, happy birthday to project gutenberg! -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] ftp.archive.org
by Tony Baechler 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

My understanding of rsync is that you had to mirror the entire PG archive. That was based on the PG FAQ and my attempts to read the help and man page. I couldn't figure out the command line options and experiments I tried gave me errors. I think the PG FAQ gives a sample command line but that's for everything which isn't what I want. Besides it's nice to manually look at and download each file. I often like to stop every few files and look at a book of interest. So, to answer your question, all of rsync confuses me since I never got it to work. Also, another problem might be that I'm primarily on Windows. I know rsync is common in Linux and I have it installed on the Debian server that I run but I'm not sure if it's available for Windows or not. I have Cygwin so I might have it, but again I have no idea how to get it to only get the files I want. That's nice about getting them manually, I can skip those I don't want as I see them in the newsletters. At 07:10 AM 6/28/06 -0400, you wrote: > I'm sorry... what? You can rsync exactly what files you wish, >recursively or not, pick and choose, with rsync... using the right >options. I mirror Gutenberg here with rsync, skipping the DVD files, >.mp3 files, .rar files and a few others, getting only the useful >copies of books. > > What part of rsync's usage is confusing you? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.7/379 - Release Date: 6/29/06

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re: [gutvol-d] New DVD ISO to try
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

greg said: > http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/gbn/pgimages/newdvd.txt thanks, greg, this document is _extremely_ informative. have a happy holiday... -bowerbird

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ftp.archive.org
by Tony Baechler 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hi list, I know that often ftp.archive.org is down for a few days at a time, but it has been down now for almost all of June. Is this permanent? Is ftp access via ftp.archive.org ended? I prefer it over ftp.ibiblio.org for PG files because it is significantly faster. If ftp access is no longer available, can anyone recommend a fast mirror that is kept frequently up to date? I tried snowy.arsc.alaska.edu but it wasn't as current as I would like. I'm planning to download several thousand zip files so a fast mirror is appreciated. I'm sure http is faster but I would prefer ftp if possible. Besides http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/ isn't really much faster than metalab.unc.edu, AKA ftp.ibiblio.org. Is there a chance that ftp.archive.org has moved to a different host or ip address? I'm running ncftp for Windows so I don't think it's a caching or dns problem. I think I tried under Linux as well with similar results. It tries for about a minute and times out. I tried with and without passive mode but it doesn't matter since I can't connect. I am in California, US. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.4/375 - Release Date: 6/25/06

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Re: [gutvol-d] ftp.archive.org
by Tony Baechler 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hello David. I tried Unison extensively because it's available for both Windows and Debian. I thought it would be great for miroring the Debian files to the Windows machine etc. I found it far worse to use than rsync. I followed the instructions exactly but I never got it to work. It uses a complicated url scheme that doesn't conform to standards. While it uses a protocol similar to rsync, it isn't the same. It has no means of encrypting the files. The documentation makes it clear that it is not secure and shouldn't be used for anything critical. I found that scp works a lot better, is far more secure and actually works. I eventually got the files that way and had ssh encryption as a bonus. Believe me, I would rather learn rsync than try that again. I'm sure it's useful rfor some applications but not in this case. Also both systmes must run the same version which means that all old versions need to be kept available. As you probably know, Debian stable can be a few versions behind the regular development. As it turned out, the versions didn't match so I had to find an older Windows version to get it to work. Thanks anyway. At 07:56 PM 6/30/06 -0400, you wrote: > How about using Unison? > > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/06

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the little red hen
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

well, well, ok, one of my favorite stories -- the little red hen -- has now hit p.g. with its illustrations, as e-text #18735. -bowerbird

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