[B-Greek] Re: Scanning Funk's Grammar

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Tue Jun 8 09:35:39 EDT 2004


I was hoping someone else would step forward to coordinate this project, but
seeing as that hasn't happened yet, I've put some thought into how best to
deploy our resources.

The volunteers we have to date are:
George Somsel: needs a copy; can do Greek data entry.
Ross Purdy: needs a copy; has a scanner and Omnipage Pro 14
Timothy Gaden: can proofread
David Sugg: needs a copy; can do scanning, OCR, proofreading, and some
markup
Patrick Narkinsky: might have a sheet-fed scanner
Carl Conrad: has a copy
Brent Hudson?: has good ideas
Perry Stepp?: has a desire to see this become available
Ken Penner: has a copy which is already unbound, access to a sheet-fed
scanner, OCR, can proofread, markup, and provide FTP/web space.
Dan Nordlund: has a scanner and Omnipage Pro 14

If anyone who would like to join this list of volunteers, please let us know
what you are willing to contribute.

To make the best use of our current volunteers' resources, I propose the
following allocation of tasks:

1. Ken: Photocopy the unbound book for the sheet-fed scanner, and mail to #2
2. Patrick: Scan the photocopy to images in compressed TIF or whatever
format is needed by #3, and upload to the FTP folder "scanned"
3. Ross/Dan: OCR the scanned images using Omnipage Pro 14, with training,
and upload the Unicode plain text output to the FTP folder "OCRed"
4. George: Edit the Unicode text (using GlobalWriter or whatever), typing
the Greek accents and correcting the English, and upload the Unicode plain
text to the FTP folder, "accented"
5. Tim: proofread correct the Unicode text, and upload the Unicode plain
text to the FTP folder, "proofed"
6. David (and Brent?): markup the text according to Westar/Polebridge's
requirements, and send it to them.

I'd like to wait a couple days to see if anyone else volunteers (especially
for the coordinating job) before I take any more action.
Some of these tasks will require out of pocket expenses (I'm thinking of the
photocopying and mailing in particular). Because I have a PayPal account
that accepts credit cards (www.paypal.com, pennerkm at mcmaster.ca), I could
also handle donations toward this project, if that would be convenient.

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. (cand.), Religious Studies, 
Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:17 AM

> On the basis of what's been said, I think I'd be willing to 
> "sacrifice" my
> copy of the 3-volume Funk textbook--it is badly bound and 
> undoubtedly the
> pages will need to be removed completely from the binding and
> reassembled/rebound later. I don't have a copy of the 
> McGaughey workbook,
> but presumably one could be procured. The Greek font of the 
> Funk textbook
> is distinctive--I think it may be the old IBM "selectric"; 
> whether that
> would make the OCR work on it more difficult I don't know.
> 
> I haven't corresponded with Char Matejovsky at Westar Institute since
> before Christmas, but one thing she's indicated is that the 
> text must be in
> Unicode and preferably in Westar's own Unicode font which she 
> will supply
> (evidently its set of symbols and diacriticals includes some important
> items and has a couple differences in keyboard input from the major
> international standard). We would need to be sure that we are 
> operating
> within Westar's guidelines since they hold the copyright 
> (which IS still in
> effect).
> 
> What I would really prefer is for someone to step forward and 
> volunteer to
> coordinate this project in cooperation with Westar; it may 
> well be, as has
> been suggested, that several persons need to be involved in 
> proofreading,
> perhaps in the keying-in of the Greek. Much as I am eager and 
> ready to do a
> part in this project, I don't want to coordinate it. Anybody 
> have the time
> and willingness to do that?




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