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collection of scripts and other tools in support of the Distributed Proofreaders workflow
Distributed-Proofreaders  scripting  toolkit 
october 2011 by Vaguery
www.fadedpage.com
"Distributed Proofreaders is an online community of proofreaders who strive to make Project Gutenberg the repository of the best free electronic books available. At any moment, hundreds of volunteers are working on different phases of saving history, one page at a time. Learn more by visiting www.pgdp.net or our newest site, www.pgdpcanada.net"
Distributed-Proofreaders  software  scripts  preprocessing  digitization  bookphile 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Broad Grins, by George Colman, the Younger.
"... that implement must have been peculiarly terrifick, which could sustain the weight of so many Brides, without detriment to its firmness, or elasticity."
ebooks  doggerel  humor  18C  naughty  digitization  Distributed-Proofreaders  crowdsourcing  mine 
may 2008 by Vaguery
DP: Post-Processing Verification Guidelines
Useful starting point for my acceptance testing list. Noted PPV report, which is a real acceptance test based on subjective estimates; could that be fleshed out?
Distributed-Proofreaders  post-processing  ebooks  digitization  workflow  standardization  testing  benchmarking 
november 2007 by Vaguery
Mid-Michigan Genealogical Society
Seems I'm going to be giving a talk there, come Autumn. Wonder what it'll be about.
genealogy  local  nanohistory  history  publishing  books  Distributed-Proofreaders  Project-Gutenberg  digitization  crowdsourcing 
may 2007 by Vaguery
Odd Ends » In the due Praise of Divine CHOCOLATE
Barbara passes along a poem she's found in a book she's post-processing at Distributed Proofreaders (an 1650-something Chocolatier's advertising screed)
17C  Distributed-Proofreaders  archive  history  nanohistory  poem  humor  marketing  oddends 
april 2007 by Vaguery
Odd Ends
Two linguistic just-so stories about te follies of English pronunciation. Blame the floppy-throated Frenchies.
linguistics  history  digitization  Distributed-Proofreaders  19C  funny  pronunciation  spelling  English 
april 2007 by Vaguery
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844.
My wife and I scanned this, and sent it through Distributed Proofreaders. To you. "The wet style of grief is quite gone out—quite! The dry cry is decidedly the genteel thing."
Knickerbocker  Distributed-Proofreaders  collaboration  crowdsourcing  digitization  old  books  archive 
march 2007 by Vaguery

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