{"id":108,"date":"2004-03-09T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T21:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2004-03-09T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T21:50:56","slug":"with-enough-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/108","title":{"rendered":"With enough eyeballs…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I referred to Project Gutenberg<\/a> obliquely here<\/a>, but browsing their site I found that they’ve implemented distributed proofreading. This is a very good thing. I did one book, Hiram, the Young Farmer<\/a>, for PG a few years ago, when I was in college and time wasn’t so precious. The OCR went quickly, but the proofreading was slow going and error prone; the story wasn’t exactly riveting, but it was in the public domain. (In fact, I just took a look at Hiram and found at least two mistakes. Doh!)<\/p>\n

But Distributed Proofreaders<\/a> solves the proofreading problem by making both the scanned image and the OCRed text available to me in a web browser. Now I can proofread one page at a time, easily take a break, and even switch between books if I’d like. Also, they’ve implemented a two phase review, much like Mozilla’s review and super review<\/a> process. Hopefully this will prevent mistakes from being made, since these are going to be the authoritative electronic versions of these documents for some time. Linus’ law<\/a> probably holds for text conversion even more than for software development.<\/p>\n

Now, it wasn’t apparent to me from the website, but I certainly hope the creators of this project have licensed it out to businesses–I can see this application being a huge help for medical transcriptions (work from home!) and any other kind of paper to electronic form conversion.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b>
\nIt looks like there is a bit of a distributed.net<\/a> type competition<\/a> among the PGDP proofreaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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