Greg wrote:
If there are some sample project pages mentioned earlier in the discussion, I apologize for missing them. What I've seen is some thoughtful and reasonable proposals, and a few that don't seem quite so viable... what's next is *not* executive decision based on the proposals. Instead, actual eBooks implementing the proposals are needed.
The current bottleneck is with DP, since they hold the lion's share of the page scans, but from what I understand cannot release them at this time (for a couple of reasons, most notably that they are up to their eyeballs with other more pressing issues.) I think it would be unwise to implement a final system until DP's scans can be released for linking to PG texts. Of course, in the meanwhile some experimentation can be done -- maybe DP will release a few random scan sets to better understand the issues (such as needed volunteer help) that need to be resolved in adapting DP's scans for linkage to PG texts (and for linking to page scans, whether standalone or within an encapsulation format such as DjVu.) Jon