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

Cirk Bejnar eluchil404 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 14:20:14 EDT 2004


I'd be willing to do proffing and/or manual entry. 
Just let me know how I can help.

Cirk R. Bejnar

--- Ken Penner <pennerkm at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 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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