Hi Roger, Apologies for the slow response.
On 9/27/10 12:16 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: > Somewhere on the Open Library site I saw something about contributing scans > of books to be converted into protected Daisy downloads. It's near impossible to contribute a scan to be made available as a DAISY download today, although this feature would be Super Awesome and we'd like to do it. For now though, it's possible to donate a physical book to our Book Drive, which results in the donated book being fed into our book scanning program and being made available through Open Library as a protected DAISY. I've been telling friends to send another copy of whatever books they buy on Amazon to the Book Drive :) Info here: http://openlibrary.org/bookdrive It seems straightforward (at least in prose) to imagine a system where somebody could upload a PDF through archive.org and funnel it out as a protected DAISY. > I am a volunteer for Bookshare.org and I have > several books on my hard drive that I have scanned for them. The ones that > have been accepted into the Bookshare collection have been proofread, but > the copies I have have not. I was wondering if these are acceptable for > being provided to Archive.org and then being made available in Open Library. Actually, we're working with Bookshare too! The hope is that Open Library can be informed about the contents of the Bookshare catalog which we can display within openlibrary.org. (Similar to the processes we went through to gather Goodreads and LibraryThing IDs into OL records). We're hoping to have something to show before the end of the year on that front. It would also be good to allow editors of Open Library to connect to eBook resources elsewhere on the web on an ad-hoc basis. So, just like editors can correct an error or add some metadata to a record today, they would also be able to add a link to an electronic copy available external to archive.org. (Though, to be sure, archive.org is a great place to pop a copy of things!) Hope this helps, george _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
