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Thank you for your efforts! That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?
by 0-_-0 6y ago
Thank you for your efforts!
That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?
- robin_reala 6y agoNearly two years, but I took a bunch of time out to work on smaller pieces. The biggest problem was that Gutenberg had only transcribed about a third of the footnotes, so I spent a long time adding the remaining ones back in.
- 0-_-0 6y agoSo you were transcribing a diary written in a shorthand? Or from a print version?
- robin_reala 6y agoFrom scanned original sources. I just opened a random page at archive.org to give you an example: https://archive.org/details/diaryofsamuelpep01pepy/page/228/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/diaryofsamuelpep01pepy/page/228/...
- 0-_-0 6y agoDo you use OCR? Sorry for the million questions.
- robin_reala 6y agoNo problem! Yes, archive.org has OCRed all the text, but it needs a lot of finessing to bring up the quality to an acceptable standard. Typically, Standard Ebooks will try to avoid OCR unless it’s something that’s missing from Gutenberg.
- 0-_-0 6y agoThank you for your time! (If you started some sort of AMA here I'm sure it would be successful.)
- jfk13 6y agoGreat work! Is there any link between this and the Pepys Diary site at https://www.pepysdiary.com https://www.pepysdiary.com (also an awesome resource)?
- robin_reala 6y agoI had a chat with Phil after I finished, and he sent over a list of transcription problems with Gutenberg that I’d missed which was very kind. But apart from that, no direct collaboration.