Distributed Proofreaders
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Distributed Proofreaders is an online volunteer-based project that converts public domain books into high-quality eBooks, primarily for inclusion in Project Gutenberg’s digital library.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Distributed Proofreaders canonical | 2 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
crowdsourcing platform
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digital humanities project ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ online volunteer project ⓘ |
| abbreviation | DP ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| contentLicense | public domain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| endDestinationOfMostEbooks | Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
optical character recognition correction
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public domain literature ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Charles Franks ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | international volunteer base ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
forums for volunteers
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image and text side-by-side display ⓘ project management system for books ⓘ statistics and progress tracking ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | major contributor of texts to Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
first-round proofreading
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formatting round ⓘ post-processing ⓘ second-round proofreading ⓘ |
| hasUserRegistration |
free of charge
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required for proofreading ⓘ |
| hasVolunteerRole |
formatter
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post-processor ⓘ project manager ⓘ proofreader ⓘ site administrator ⓘ |
| inception | 2000 ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | nonprofit corporation ⓘ |
| mainOutput |
HTML eBooks
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plain text eBooks ⓘ proofread eBooks ⓘ |
| name | Distributed Proofreaders self-link ⓘ |
| operatesOn | round-based proofreading system ⓘ |
| operationalModel |
crowdsourced text correction
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distributed proofreading ⓘ |
| purpose |
convert public domain books into high-quality eBooks
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support Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
academic studies on crowdsourcing
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media coverage about digital libraries ⓘ |
| typicalSourceMaterial |
OCR text
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scanned page images ⓘ |
| uses | web-based proofreading interface ⓘ |
| website | https://www.pgdp.net/ ⓘ |
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