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Poster:	stbalbach	Date:	December 07, 2008 09:31:55am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Duplicate files/books?

Well, I think the idea with Internet Archive is that when users such as yourself create something new (such as a corrected OCR text) you can upload it to Internet Archive. Just upload the new text and it will be here. It won't show up in the original book page, because that is a different work, but you could post in the review comment section of that book letting users know that another version exists on Internet Archive (the one you uploaded).

Another option is send your text to Project Gutenberg since that is what they do, correct and edit OCR and publish as text. Project Gutenberg texts then get uploaded to Internet Archive. That's another way.

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Poster:	Horatius	Date:	December 08, 2008 01:23:12am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Duplicate files/books?

Thanks for answering. I have another concept of "quality" and think useless maintain a file of very bad quality when a good one is present. Of course the good one can (or must) be ameliorated. Another problem (perhaps) comes from GFDL license used by Wikisource. It allows also commercial use and I ask muyself if it's compatible with copyright politics of IA & Co. Bye!

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Poster:	girl2k	Date:	December 08, 2008 03:18:15pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Duplicate files/books?

You point to an important point, but, unfortunately, there is no way for the Archive to incorporate corrected OCR into its book files. It is a problem we will solve in the future, but currently it cannot be done. The advice provided above is best for now.