On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, N Wolcott wrote:
Does DP have a post-processing crisis? With thousands of volunteers texts flow regularly through the OCR and first phase quickly. However there are several thousand books that have been in post processing over a year. Many of these are hard, but many are plain text.
Is it appropriate to re-scan a book to start the process over again hoping for better luck? One could clear another edition, etc.
Perhaps "crisis" is too strong a word to use. I suspect this situation is somewhat inevitable, as playing a part in the proofing process, doing one page at a time is realatively easy to do, and gives a sense of having accomplishment sooner. Post-proofing is a larger commitment, and can be more tedious. On another note, one of the many texts waiting in the queue is "Alcyone", a collection of poetry by by Archibald Lampman, a highly-regarded Canadian poet. I have all the text of this volume which I have gathered from another online source, which I could use for comparison, and have offered multiple times to do post-proofing on this since June 2004, but have not had any responces, other than "contact the person the text has been assigned to" which I have tried multiple times with no response. Andrew