Distributed Proofreaders

Site Concept

Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to comfort the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into idiosyncratic pages, many volunteers can activity on a publish at the identical time, which considerably speeds up the innovation process.

During proofreading, volunteers are presented alongside a scanned leaf depiction and the corresponding OCR content on a sole web page. This allows the content to be effortlessly compared to the image, proofread, and sent rear to the site. A second unpaid is afterward presented alongside the archetypal volunteer's activity and the identical leaf image, verifies and corrects the activity as necessary, and submits it rear to the site. The publish afterward likewise progresses through a third proofreading circular and two formatting rounds using the identical web interface.

Once all the pages have completed these steps, a post-processor carefully assembles them into an e-book, optionally makes it accessible to curious parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive.

How You Can Help

• Register alongside the location as a volunteer
  and/or
• Donate to the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation.

Registered volunteers may contribute to Distributed Proofreaders in multiple ways including proofreading, "smooth reading" pre-released e-books to inspect for errors, managing projects, providing content, or equal assisting create improvements to the site. Volunteers may additionally associate another members of our community in our forums to conversation these and many another topics.

Volunteering at Distributed Proofreaders

It's uncomplicated to unpaid at Distributed Proofreaders. Simply register as a volunteer. Once you've confirmed your registration by e-mail, you'll obtain an introductory e-mail alongside essential instructions on how to log in and use the site. Then, you're prepared to sign in and commencement learning to proofread or sojourn the gentle study leaf to choice an e-book to read! Wherever you go, you'll discover many of data to assistance you get started. Please try our Walkthrough for a preview of the steps engaged whenever proofreading on this site.

There is no dedication expected on this location beyond the understanding that you do your best. Spend as much or as small period as you like. We advance you to proofread at smallest a leaf a day and/or gentle peruse a publish as frequently as your period allows, but it's entirely up to you.

We anticipation you volition associate us in our goal of "preserving the written former of the earth in a openly accessible form for everyone to use."

We are unable to provision certification for any intent that would necessitate Distributed Proofreaders to track the figure of hours spent volunteering, or to provision verification of a user's character beyond that provided by their email address, or to certify that the unpaid personally performed the work. For these reasons, we cannot provision certification for court-ordered community service, programs operated by federal, state, or municipal governments, etc. For additional information, delight see this page.

Current Progress

Our community of proofreaders, project managers, developers, etc. is composed entirely of volunteers.
331 energetic users in the former twenty-four hours.
711 energetic users in the former 7 days.
1,249 energetic users in the former 30 days.

Questions or comments? Please communication us at [email protected].

About DP

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Mission

Distributed Proofreaders is dedicated to the conservation of written plant that are in the Public Domain in the United States by converting them into high-quality, openly accessible digital transcriptions. This is accomplished through the efforts of a supportive community of volunteers. Distributed Proofreaders follows the principles of the American Library Association Freedom to Read statement.

History

Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to assistance the digitization of Public Domain books. Originally conceived to assistance Project Gutenberg (PG), Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is now the chief origin of PG e-books. In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders became an authoritative PG site. In May 2006, Distributed Proofreaders became a distinct lawful being and continues to keep a powerful association alongside PG.