On 7/14/05, Robert Shimmin <shimmin@uiuc.edu> wrote:
The Christian Classics Etherial Library, which was doing distributed proofreading even before DP, has an interesting approach to this. Rather than wait until a project is "done" before posting it do their site, they post the scans and raw OCR the day they get it, and it's this live version that undergoes continuous proofreading and markup a page at a time.
I've looked at a similar system on Project Runeberg, but it doesn't look very successful at outputing a number of accurate and complete etexts. DP does a very good job at keeping attention focused on a few texts and keeping them moving forward page by page in the system, where as those system seem to disperse the effort over a lot of books and a lot of pages that are corrected more or less at random.