Robert 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.
My memory says they do have a way of indicating to the end user how thoroughly "done" any particular text is, but cannot recall any details at this juncture.
Interesting! I know from long-ago firsthand experience that Christians (particularly Fundamentalists) take seriously the *textual integrity* of the books and texts they use. Thus, it is not surprising that CCEL has setup procedures to assure fidelity, with community oversight to further assure nothing gets corrupted in any way, either accidentally or intentionally. The community aspect adds trustworthiness to the project. It would not surprise me if the CCEL texts have quite low error rates and those errors which still exist are pretty innocuous as errors go. Jon