On 16-Jan-05, at 10:06 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Suppose Jörg Vetenskaper and Frederik Pedant both happen to download the same text for OCR conversion, and therefore duplicate the work. -- Erik Pedersen
You're right. One way to avoid [the updating anomaly] could be:
- Register a user identity and log in. (To be implemented.)
- Sign up for OCRing a work. Your user ID and the date-time is recorded as a volunteer for OCR of this work.
- If you haven't uploaded the results within 7 days, a reminder e-mail is sent to you and after 14 days, your name is removed so another user can volunteer for OCRing of the same work.
This could of course be a generic mechanism for any kind of work that takes longer than proofreading a single page.
This seems to be a better solution than my initial suggestion to remind EVERY downloader, since, as Hans Persson pointed out, there may be other legitimate reasons to download an image file than a commitment to OCR-convert it.
Right now this stops at point 1, which someone (Erik? Hans?) has to implement. We have been talking about this among ourselves for ages already. (A bad sign: I've bought this book on "Procrastination", but I haven't found time to read it yet.)
Ha! That's funny . . .
Regards, Erik