Comments on: Evaluating the quality of electronic texts http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/ Exploring what digital scholarship is and how to do it in the context of the humanities Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:32:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: digitization transmission http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/#comment-224 digitization transmission Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:13:29 +0000 http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-224 [...] electronic texts? Can researchers feel comfortable citing them and using them for text analysishttp://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/Facsimile Transmissionof a new Records digitization Facility RDF in Williamsburg, Kentucky to ... [...] [...] electronic texts? Can researchers feel comfortable citing them and using them for text analysishttp://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/Facsimile Transmissionof a new Records digitization Facility RDF in Williamsburg, Kentucky to … [...]

]]> By: jge http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/#comment-172 jge Mon, 19 May 2008 14:39:35 +0000 http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-172 Thank you again for your blog, I really appreciate the work in all this! One should know that in several countries the legal notice coming with the digitized work may not be correct. In Germany for example simple book scanning does not constitute a copyright to the images one has produced (because there's no "creative process" in scanning). So if Google Books offers images of books in the public domain, Google's "terms of use" are of no importance. There are 2 points not mentioned: 1. does the archive have a possibility to correct texts? E.G. If one works with a scan by Google and notices ocr/textual errors, what can one do? The answer (for Google): nothing. A pity. (I haven' tried for the other archives yet.) Citing: Some collections offer stable links to texts that are clearly recocgnizable as such. But did you know that you can identify a Google Book by linking with the string before the second question mark? For example your "Knickerbocker": http://books.google.com/books?id=WxIAAAAAYAAJ. Thank you again for your blog, I really appreciate the work in all this!

One should know that in several countries the legal notice coming with the digitized work may not be correct. In Germany for example simple book scanning does not constitute a copyright to the images one has produced (because there’s no “creative process” in scanning). So if Google Books offers images of books in the public domain, Google’s “terms of use” are of no importance.

There are 2 points not mentioned: 1. does the archive have a possibility to correct texts? E.G. If one works with a scan by Google and notices ocr/textual errors, what can one do? The answer (for Google): nothing. A pity. (I haven’ tried for the other archives yet.)

Citing: Some collections offer stable links to texts that are clearly recocgnizable as such. But did you know that you can identify a Google Book by linking with the string before the second question mark? For example your “Knickerbocker”:
http://books.google.com/books?id=WxIAAAAAYAAJ.

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