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Humanities Computing conference
by Andrew Sly 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I'm looking for feedback from other PG volunteers. There will be a four-day "humanities computing Summer Institute" taking place in my city in June, as described here: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ It looks as if its main focus will be on digitizing texts using the tei dtd. Any ideas on how worthwhile it would be participating in this? Andrew

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Scanner vs. digital camera
by Juhana Sadeharju 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

[ Continuing the thread under subject "wiki...". ] Scanners have pros but because they are dangerous to use, I would prefer digital camera. At least I got fed up to lifting up the book for changing pages. A 600 pages book is quite weighty. Another annoyance was that the scanner collected dust (both from book and from room). Scanner was also slow. A couple of days ago I borrowed a tourist range digital camera. I could digitize 8 pages per minute. It was as fast and easy as I had predicted. The digitization speed was limited only by image transfer technology, not by speed of my fingers. "Easy" is the keyword here. I have invented a couple of camera features which would help in book digitization. Anyone would know how to contact camera manufacturers? Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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re: [gutvol-d] Humanities Computing conference
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

andrew said: > Just to avoid confusing other PG volunteers too much wouldn't want anyone to be confused... as for the conference, i say go for it. it would be nice if _someone_ here could answer questions about t.e.i. -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Spam on PG lists?
by JBuck814366460＠aol.com 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

> Isn't the list open to subscribers-only? If not, I suggest > moving it to that model. I agree, if it isn't subscriber-only, it should be as soon as possible. The spam is very annoying and doesn't belong on the list. Jared

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Slashdot on Google Print
by Marcello Perathoner 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Discussion about Google Print mentions PG too. http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/21/1237243.shtml -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Online TEI page and the recent server move
by Joshua Hutchinson 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

I know Marcello has been talking about some server moves that have been taking place recently. Starting this week, the online TEI conversion tools at: http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/services/tei-online have quit working. I thought at first it might be my local firewall or an overloaded server (it does cause problems once in a while). However, it has been down all week for me, so I'm starting to think it may be due to the server move. My question is: Is this the cause and is this something that is going to get fixed in time? Should I just be patient? Also, as a sidenote question, since the PG server can get overwhelmed sometimes, would this be better server over on the DP server? (It seems to fit better over with that work load anyway, at least in my opinion). Josh

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Re: Arabic eTexts
by Juhana Sadeharju 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Are those Arabic OCR software open source and free? Having no Arabic OCR software has not prevented us from digitizing Arabic texts earlier. If only buying a $$$$ software gets you motivated to digitize arabic texts, then it is fine by me. However, I feel the arabic texts should be digitized first as image files. Specially if the text is written by hand. This apparoach will be cheaper and faster as well. Please don't make the mistage of not archiving and making available the images if you choose the OCR approach. I'm pleased to archive any arabic digitizations as image files for now and for future use. Only image files can preserve the text as close to original as possible. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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Re: [gutvol-d] Another PG 'clone'
by Joshua Hutchinson 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

The site makes it very clear on the front page that they are not affliated with PG, so I've got no problem with it. I'd prefer a different domain name, but obviously we don't own the domain name, so it was free for anyone to take, I suppose. At least this one is actually something to do with eBooks and not a porn site or something... :) Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcello Perathoner" <marcello(a)perathoner.de> To: "Project Gutenberg volunteer discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: [gutvol-d] Another PG 'clone' Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:06:05 +0100 > > How do we like this one? > > http://www.gutenberg.com > > > -- Marcello Perathoner > webmaster(a)gutenberg.org > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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FWD: converting text into audio for reader format
by Greg Newby 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Please see the below - the question is, what eBook readers with text to speech capabilities can input a .txt file (versus .htm etc.) Please copy Donna Woodstock <donna.woodstock(a)sheridanc.on.ca> or respond to her directly with any suggestions. Thanks! On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:21:13PM -0500, Donna Woodstock wrote: > Hi Greg, > > If it's no trouble to forward to the list that would be appreciated. I > tried searching for a html format for Frankenstein...it shows it is > available but it still downloads as a .txt file. > > Cheers! > > Greg Newby wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:58:30PM -0500, Donna Woodstock wrote: > > > >>I am wondering if it is possible when an ebook is downloaded to be able > >>to open it up in a reader that has audio capabilities. I've tried > >>Microsoft reader but I cannot get it to read the text format. If you > >>can recommend a reader that can do this I would greatly appreciate it. > > > > > >Hi, Donna. We've had people using products like ViaVoice and > >other text-to-speech programs. I don't know anything about Microsoft > >Reader's audio capabilities - it might be it's not capable > >of processing .txt files. Perhaps you could try one of our > >titles in HTML (see http://gutenberg.org/find)? Or, it might > >be necessary to transform a .txt to the proprietary Reader > >format. I know people can do this, but we don't have any > >information about the tools. If you're still stuck, I can > >forward your note to the gutvol-d list (http://lists.pglaf.org) > >to see whether people can provide some more specific guidance. > > > >Sorry this isn't too helpful... > > -- Greg Newby >

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Another PG 'clone'
by Marcello Perathoner 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

How do we like this one? http://www.gutenberg.com -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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