-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Flo Williams Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:41 AM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Newbie questions about clearances, author attribution and header texts
Juliet Sutherland wrote:
You have two options concerning the author. The first is to resubmit the clearance with the corrected author and a note saying that this supercedes your previous request. The other alternative is not to worry about the clearance, but just make sure that you include the proper author's name when you upload the book to the white-washers.
Thank you. As tempting as it is to jump to the front of the queue, I'll go with the latter option, as it'll save re-uploading the TP&V images.
When you upload the finished version, there will be a place for you to enter a credit line. You can put your name there, if you want
Paul, generally speaking, you shouldn't include in your submitted texts material that wasn't part of the book as it was originally published, e.g. the Google header. (Several months ago, I encountered a submission that incorporated the book's owning library's card catalog information--I removed it.) As Juliet says, you can mention the source in your credit line, something like this: "Paul Williams, from scans obtained from Google Books". PG's posting software will prefix this with "Produced by". Occasionally, submitters will include the full URL to the Google (or Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/americana) source in a Transcriber's Note, which are described in PG's Volunteers' FAQ, article 7.15 V.97. BTW - I took a look at the PDF version of the source. I noted that immediately following the Contents there were several Errata items. It's quite acceptable to retain these items as printed, and to make the described corrections to the text to which they refer. The fact that such corrections have been made can be mentioned in a Transcriber's Note. Al (one of PG's Whitewashers) public
credit, and also add something about the scans being from Google. You can check other PG books to see how it is usually worded.
Excellent, thank you.
-- Paul Williams
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