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> Are these corrections going to make it upstream to Gutenberg? It's an issue worth raising to the team. In the spirit of GPL, I think reporting any instances
by AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
> Are these corrections going to make it upstream to Gutenberg?
It's an issue worth raising to the team. In the spirit of GPL, I think reporting any instances of clear typos in the source text upstream would be a good idea.
The problem is that so much work is done to the text as part of StandardEbook production that we can't exactly just submit a single patch or diff. It would be difficult to identify the textual corrections from stylistic changes in an automatic way, unless we were to enforce typo corrections to occur in a single commit. We're currently encouraged to use an [Editorial] tag when modernizing spelling such as "any one" -> "anyone", so perhaps we should see about a [Transcription Error] tag for obvious typos.
The upshot is that all of the books' sources are hosted on GH. So an interested party could, in theory, review the commit history and pull out what look to be typo corrections. See, for example:
https://github.com/standardebooks/emile-gaboriau_the-lerouge-case/commit/50958e4ed3cc22cf9afb26dabcd93d9f986f9b8a https://github.com/standardebooks/emile-gaboriau_the-lerouge...
Failing that, the contributor could simply manually keep track of any typos they fix and report them to GP.
- Moru 7y agoOn the other side, modernising the texts might not be what gutenberg wants, if they want to keep original errors from the books? Haven't looked it up but I have been in other book project where it was more important to keep everything as it was printed.
- the_duke 7y ago"Modernizing" is a very questionable thing to do IMO. Fixing typos is fine I guess, but books are the result of an era and grammar or writing style is an inherent part of a book that should not be altered.
- StavrosK 7y agoThat's true, it changes the book materially, I think.
- robin_reala 7y agoWe’re pretty light touch. For an example, the biggest change a typical novel gets is amending “to-day” to “today”.
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