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

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Thu Jun 10 10:56:12 EDT 2004


Seeing as no one else has stepped forward to coordinate the digitization of
Funk's Grammar, I will do so at least until Brent Hudson can take over after
July 12.

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
mark-up
Patrick Narkinsky: might have a commercial-grade sheet-fed scanner
Carl Conrad: has a copy and correspondence with Westar Institute, and can
proofread and contribute financially
Brent Hudson: willing to coordinate after July 12
Ken Penner: has a copy which is already unbound, access to a sheet-fed
scanner, OCR, can proofread, mark-up, and provide FTP/web space.
Dan Nordlund: has a scanner and Omnipage Pro 14
Joe Weaks: has a flatbed scanner, Omnipage, and can do proofreading
Douglas Olds: has a spiral-bound copy and can do proofreading
Geoff Litke: can make a small financial contribution
Cirk Bejnar: can do proofreading and data entry
Dan King: can do proofreading and correcting
Doug McEachern: has advice
Mont Cessna: can do proofreading and correcting
Rick Hubbard: has the workbook
Dana Hall: can do proofreading

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

What needs to happen next?
1. Carl will send me his correspondence from Westar
2. Patrick will confirm whether or not he can use the commercial-grade
sheet-fed scanner, whether it can handle duplex (double-sided) sheets, and
what format output it can produce
3. I will ask Char at Westar for details about the target format
4. Those able to contribute financially can send money for copying and
postage (I estimate US$40 for copying; how much would it cost to mail 1000
pages across the US?) either to Douglas O and Rick or to me and I will
forward it to them (use www.paypal.com to send to pennerkm at mcmaster.ca).
5. Ross or Dan N will list the image formats OmniPage Pro 14 can accept
6. I will set up the WWW and FTP site to distribute and keep track of work
in progress, and provide the passwords to the volunteers
7. Those who volunteered to proofread and enter data can let me know whether
they are familiar with typing Unicode Greek (see Rod Decker's
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/unicode.htm or Curtis Hinson's
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.html for information on Unicode).
8. Those volunteers who are familiar with HTML and CSS or XML or macros can
let me know if they are willing to help with mark-up.

To make the best use of our current volunteers' resources, I propose the
following allocation of tasks:
 
1. Douglas O and Rick: Photocopy the book(s) and mail to Patrick
2. Patrick: Scan the photocopy and upload the images, in 10-page sets
3. Ross and Dan O: OCR the scanned images and upload the Unicode plain text
output (with no formatting except paragraphs), one file for every 10 pages
(00.txt for pages 0 to 9; 01.txt for pages 10-19, etc.)
4. Tim, Douglas O, Dana (and others who prefer to type English): proofread
the English Unicode text, and upload in 10-page files
5. George (who else can type Unicode Greek quickly? Cirk? David? Joe? Dan N?
Mont?): Correct the Greek (especially adding accents and breathing marks)
and upload
6. David (and anyone else who is familiar with HTML): mark-up the text
according to Westar/Polebridge's requirements
7. Ken: Join the 10-page files into one, or at least into chapters,
according to Westar/Polebridge's requirements
7. Carl (and any other senior scholars) final proofreading.
8. Ken: Send the final product to Westar

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
Dead Sea Scrolls scholars' list owner,
http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot




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