Just One Page a Day

Charles Franks writes "Two years ago I started building an online proofreading system as a way to help Project Gutenberg (PG) get more books online: Distributed Proofreaders (DP). The concept is simple, we scan books and load the image and OCR output for each page into the online system. Next, proofreaders compare the OCR text to the image making any corrections as necessary, each page gets looked at twice. Finally the output from the site is massaged into a PG e-text and submitted to PG for posting to the archive. Now, nearly 600 books and a lot of PHP code later, we have snuggled into our new home which is graciously provided by the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. Now that we have 'real' resources available to us (the original site ran on a Pentium 200 over my 128kbps upstream cablemodem) I would like to invite the online community at large to help us put even more books online. To this end I would like to ask everyone to do 'Just One Page a Day'. Thank you, Charles Franks"

Comments

And you ask the /. community..

[Harald74]

... which is renowned for it's spelling prowess? ;)

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Textbook Error]

for it's spelling

Or grammer... :-)

("it's" == "it is", "its" == possessive form)

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[tswinzig]

... which is renowned for it's spelling prowess? ;)

Are you kidding? With the number of people bitching about grammar and spelling in the comments, you just know there's a pool of talent here!

(BTW, there's no apostrophe in the possessive form of "its.")

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Skirwan]

And you ask the /. community..
... which is renowned for it's spelling prowess? ;)

Is anyone else somewhat dismayed by the fact that the post pointing out our collective poor grammatical skills has a spurious apostrophe?

:)

--
It's past the blind leading the blind; this is the blind and deaf leading the stupid.

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[orthogonal]

... which is renowned for it's [sic] spelling prowess? ;)

Not to mention it's [sic] excellence at spotting grammatical errors.

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[tswinzig]

for it's spelling

Or grammer...

Or spelling?

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Erasei]

What's even scarier is that there are this many comments telling a person that he is wrong when he so isn't. I mean, come on guys, even the Flowers know the real way to use the apostrophe: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Anonymous Coward]

Or sense of humour?

Just one page a day?

[Adam Rightmann]

Sounds like Gary Condit's plan for extramarital affairs.

Re:Just one page a day?

[indiigo]

And Bill Clinton did contain himself, except it was one page every day!

Obvious...

[OrangeSpyderMan]

I'm shure that buy askin teh Salshdot crowd (esp. the editturs) to help, yule improove jamatically teh kwality off you're output.

:-)

Wow, what a scary thought

[TheConfusedOne]

Imagine the kids 200 years from now reading |-|uc||_3b3rry F1|\||\|.

(That hurts my brain just trying to type it in...)

Mod Parent 'Twat'

[henben]

Nuff said.

Read?

[uneek]

Don't you mean run a compare tool in the background using CPU idle time right?

You don't actually want us to read a
page of literature do you?

Better make it quick

[CatWrangler]

The new congress might extend copyright protection to Shakespeare's great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson's nephew's out of wedlock kid's son whose paternity is in question.

And I shall call it... the wheel!

[tiltowait]

You mean a more communal approach than an oligarchy of "editros" that can't spot day-old duplicates? Great idea!

Re:Excellent

[Draoi]

in order to correct inadvertent spelling mistakes and story duplicity

Not to mention malapropisms!! :-)

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=duplicity&d b=*

I like the first definition better!

Just one page a day, huh?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Sure, it starts as just one a day. But, before you know it, you're doing two, then five, then ten.

You stop going out with friends or even returning their calls, personal hygiene takes a back seat and even Counter Strike and Warcraft III become unappealling. And, finally, after countless chapters and hundreds of pages you realise that you're friends were right: you're an addict.

Just one page a day, huh? Yeah, right.

Opium. Pot. Cocaine. Now pages.

It might not be your older brother's drug, or your Daddy's or your grandfathers, but, trust me, this stuff can be dangerous.

Do what I do. Just say no.

Re:A better use of time (OK, here's mine)

[gosand]

If we just write one line of code a day each we'll have better OCR in no time.

OK, here's mine:

#include stdio.h

next...

Re:And you ask the /. community...

[Binestar]

MY GOD! A story where nitpicking grammar and spelling is *ON* topic.

This'll be a fun one to read through.

Looking for proofreaders on slashdot !!

[tadas]

If they're looking for proofreaders here, the project is in deep trouble...