--- Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> wrote:
My answer is another question: Shouldn't the decision to archive and make the scans publicly available *alongside* the digital text versions be a collective decision among the PG/DP folk? *snip* Someone stepping forth to provide a home for the scans will not change how PG/DP does their thing so long as there is no collective decision that it is a good thing to do
DP existed for, what was it? two years? before it became an "official" PG project by demonstrating its effectiveness. Even then, nobody's required to buy into it--you can always submit texts straight to PG. If you build a *reality* that's even a quarter of your vision, it's often far more effective than just talking about the final result. Gradually, people will come to accept it...or not. That's the risk. I'd say get some infrastructure in place to support those PM's, CP's, and PP's that agree with, or at least are willing to provide material for, your vision. Keep those scans. Link 'em to the PG texts. Maybe take the guiguts .bin file (for page break information) and use that to set up a user-submitted corrections form like CCEL. Talk to Harry Plantinga--he's both smart and a nice guy. Shucks, there might be CS students at Calvin who'd be looking for a project and could help. I'm not willing to say "yes, do it this way!" and support changing existing workflow (which was designed to produce PG e-texts) to facilitate your project. But I'm willing to send up the work I've done if it could be useful--a *lot* of CP'ers would love to donate their page scans. Why not start from that and see how it grows? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250