On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:32:04PM -0600, Jon Noring wrote:
Bowerbird wrote:
jon said:
The system I propose for scan file naming is *simpler* than yours and more flexible
so, once again, jon, you've made a mountain out of a molehill, and then put together a baroque "plan" on how to scale it...
Well, we've both had our say, so let the few others who are following this topic decide for themselves. There are, of course, other possible filenaming systems.
Jon
Hmmm, did someone form an executive decision committee while I was skimming through this thread? The "say" is that we're all anxiously awaiting any completed eBooks demonstrating any or all ways of doing things. There will not be any decision about the official way of doing things (if there ever is) until some people create demonstrations. It's clear that light programming at gutenberg.org to make a given demo work is available. So is server space there or elsewhere. There are plenty of images available, too -- for example, the gallica.fr and Canadiana and Internet Archive sources often used as input to DP, as well as "actual" DP scans. I will be happy to insert samples into the PG collection, even if they're not compliant with whatever turns out to be the "official" method. 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. -- Greg