[tei-council] Fwd: Re: Google Books > TEI

[James Cummings]

On 07/03/12 14:48, Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
> James, these are the ECCO-TCP texts (and perhaps other Oxford Text
> Archive texts), right?

Yes, I believe these would be ECCO-TCP and eventually potentially 
EEBO-TCP conversions along with other texts from the OTA 
converted to TEI P5 and then to EPub.

> If matching the texts up to scanned books is
> *not* part of this work, does that mean that from Google's perspective
> these works would only consist of electronic text, and no page images?

The idea, from my point of view, might be that you could download 
the EPub on your android phone using the google Books 
application. Presumably, the matching up would mean that where 
there was a Google Books scanned book of this, they could offer 
the EPub as an alternative to download or something.

> That's the part that seemed to me like it might tie in with the
> development of a text feedback mechanism, because it implies a
> workflow where the electronic text is the original object, rather than
> the output of another process (in contrast with the current scan + OCR
> model). If text is 1) going to be accepted from the outside in the
> first place and 2) Not going to be generated or overwritten by a
> Google engine, building a way to make or recommend corrections to the
> text starts to look more reasonable.

I think this would be treated as a separate but related object.

-James


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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford