Very interesting, Jan. Thanks for sharing.
> It takes less than five minutes to create an e-record by reusing an
> p-record and add the
> fiels necessary to transform the record to an e-record.
Are you making the edits manually or have you automated this process in
some way?
> I have collected by myself up to today more than 17.000 e-books.
> I can do about 10.000 per year
Wow! Is your employer supportive of this or are you doing this on your
own time?
> So what is the point to mecanically harvest GBS
> URLs if most of it
> is not of any value?
Hmmm. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I think I'd have a hard
time convincing a faculty member at my institution that a volume we had
in print wasn't worth being digitized.
I've heard that the selection process takes more effort/time than the
technical processing--folks like Google may be scanning everything on
the shelf since it's too much effort to do the selection. How much time
to do spend on "selection" to separate the trash from the treasure?
--SET
Received on Thu Oct 18 2007 - 02:38:43 EDT