Juliet wrote:
Making page images available both to the general public and for checking on reported errata will happen eventually. We are not erasing or losing any of the basic material. But I'm sure it won't happen nearly as quickly as Jon Noring would like. ;-)
Thank you for the authoritative clarification of the current status of the page scans used in DP's work flow. And I'm glad all the scans have been saved and that there is an intention to eventually make them available to the public (except those scans which cannot be made public.) Regarding the volunteer(s) to help out with the page scan sorting process. Well, one never knows. If I wasn't so overwhelmed with a few proposals and projects which are coming to a boil, I'd volunteer right away (but I will volunteer to help with organizing the sorting process, and to help with some of the actual sorting, if a couple others step forward to also help with the organization.) This almost seems like a job best tackled by a small group of people considering there must be several thousand book projects and it is important it proceed at a pace much faster than the number of new projects being added. It could be doable in a distributed fashion from a dedicated server (separate from the DP servers.) It would require one or two people who are familiar at a high-level with the DP system, its metadata collection procedure, etc. That puts me at a slight disadvantage to lead that project. Regarding my impatience. Yes, I'm impatient. Sorry. <smile/> Jon