On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:42:12PM -0800, don kretz wrote:
Greg,
Is it possible to imagine poaching off the metadata other people have?
For one example, could TIA be mined to acquire a list of books whose images are harvestable? And could some of them be determined clearable to build a list of projects that could be begun with lower-than-usual overhead?
I don't think I understand this suggestion. We were talking about metadata in the books that PG completes/posts. It seems you are talking about projects that are not yet complete. I do think that might be a good idea for identifying candidates for scanning, especially if we could somehow filter out items we already have (*that* part can be rather difficult, due to variations in titls) That seems a somewhat different focus than most of what we've been talking about, though, so perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what you are suggesting. Alternatively, some of my earlier messages on this might have clarified what we have. -- Greg