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| | Distributed Proofreaders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This effectively distributes the time-consuming error correction process, analogously to distributed computing. | | | Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a project to support the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg. | | | Among many other works, Distributed Proofreaders is currently working on producing a complete electronic edition of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, the volumes of which will be available on Project Gutenberg as they are finished. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Proofreaders
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing: Projects |
| | P2P Distributed Computing Framework - JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework. | | | Info Sharkz Distributed Computing - Distributed Computing information containing the concept of Grid computing and active projects in the feild of distributed computing to help solve problems and questions. | | | Distributed computing projects - Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing/Projects
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| | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » DP5: The communities of Distributed Proofreaders |
| | Distributed Proofreaders is not just a piece of software; it is also a string of communities using that software, some by themselves, some heavily connected. | | | Currently, the Distributed Proofreaders software is being used by three different projects: Project Gutenberg in the USA for mostly English texts, Project Rastko in Serbia and Montenegro for European languages and Project Madurai (in Australia?) for Tamil documents. | | | This software contains the PHP code that is needed to set up a site for distributed proofreading, and various extras, such as a font optimized for proofreading, a proofreading quiz, guidelines, et cetera. |
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http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3756
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| | Distributed Proofreaders publishes 5000 etexts (press release) — Project Gutenberg EU |
| | Distributed Proofreaders is a project that spreads the work of scanning, OCR (turning scan bitmaps into actual text), correction and formatting of public domain books around. | | | Distributed Proofreaders was started in 2000 by Charles Franks, and ran on a computer in his garage. | | | I do not represent Project Gutenberg or the Distributed Proofreaders; this press release is my own initiative. |
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http://www.gutenberg.nl/press/dp-5000-pr
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| | Distributed Proofreading |
| | Proofreaders compare an image of a scanned page of classic literature to the text recognized by an OCR program. | | | Enlist an army of volunteers to proofread, one page at a time, text destined to be added to the Project Gutenberg e-book program. | | | After two rounds of proofreading, the result is submitted to Project Gutenberg. |
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http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bailen/wisdom/Site01.html
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| | Distributed Proofreaders (DP) was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of Public Domain books and to provide material more efficiently for Project Gutenberg (PG). | | | Because of the enormity of the task of proofreading an entire work, the DP structure enables volunteers to be able to proofread scanned texts one page at a time. | | | Though Project Guttenberg and Distributed Proofreaders are related, they are two separate orgnizations. |
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http://www.scienceofcollaboratories.org/Resources/collab.php?361
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| | DC - Active Projects - Human |
| | Help proofread electronic texts for Project Gutenberg (PG) at Distributed Proofreaders (DP). | | | A proofreading interface is displayed in your web browser, and you can proofread pages for the project one at a time. |
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http://distributedcomputing.info/distrib-2004/ap-human.html
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| | Kirk Pearson's Weblog |
| | SETI@home is the first distributed computing project to use BOINC. | | | A year after that I was completely hooked on the idea of distributed computing projects and I created a website to track active and upcoming public distributed computing projects (those in which anyone can participate) and to get others involved with them. | | | It allows distributed computing organizations to develop and manage client applications on a common distributed computing platform. |
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/kpearson/20040726
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| | Dossiers du NEF - Project Gutenberg, from 1971 to 2005 |
| | DP Europe uses the software of the original Distributed Proofreaders and is dedicated to the proofreading of eBooks for Project Gutenberg Europe. | | | If we consider the eBook in its etymological sense, that is to say a book that has been digitized to be distributed as an electronic file, it is now 34 years old and was born with Project Gutenberg in July 1971. | | | The main "leap forward" of Project Gutenberg in the last few years is due to Distributed Proofreaders. |
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/foire2000/dossiers/gutenberg_eng.htm
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| | TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet |
| | Taking distributed computation from the desktop to the pocket will be accelerated by Moore's Law - the 8086 processor that was the heart of the first IBM PC can now be manufactured on a speck one fifth of a millimeter square for less than ten cents. | | | Scientifically and economically, voluntary distributed computation communities are still in their infancy - but they appear to be healthy and growing infants. | | | Check out the directory of distributed computing projects at Aspenleaf, and you'll see FightAIDS@ home, evolution@home, and people confederating their computers to forecast the weather, crack encryption challenges and split the prize-money, optimize medical drug design, discover enormous prime numbers, create art together. |
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http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/100468.html
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| | Dan Moore!: With enough eyeballs... |
| | But Distributed Proofreaders solves the proofreading problem by making both the scanned image and the OCRed text available to me in a web browser. | | | I referred to Project Gutenberg obliquely here, but browsing their site I found that they've implemented distributed proofreading. | | | Now, it wasn't apparent to me from the website, but I certainly hope the creators of this project have licensed it out to businesses--I can see this application being a huge help for medical transcriptions (work from home!) and any other kind of paper to electronic form conversion. |
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http://www.mooreds.com/weblog/archives/000108.html
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| | Surf Sites: Distributed Computing |
| | Distributed computing tries to solve computationally intensive problems by giving small parts of a problem to many computers. | | | These projects depend on volunteers who actively participate, as in Open Mind Commonsense (see lead article), or who volunteer spare cycles of their computer. | | | The list below provides examples of distributed computing projects. |
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http://web.mit.edu/is/isnews/v18/n06/180613.html
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| | [gmonthly] EXTRA! Special Edition -- D.P. Milestone |
| | The titles within the collection were selected from amongst its most challenging and complex projects in order to demonstrate the varied strengths of the Distributed Proofreaders production model. | | | Fueling the labor of our intentions for the 5K Collection was a desire to produce for the world a gift of immense value that would dramatically exemplify the best of which Distributed Proofreaders is now capable. | | | Among the many periodicals represented within the 5K Collection are: 'The Atlantic Monthly', 'Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine', 'Notes and Queries', 'Punch', and 'Scientific American.' The accomplishment represented by the 5,000 milestone is a source of great pride to the membership of DP. |
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http://lists.pglaf.org/pipermail/gmonthly/2004/000003.html
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| | Notional Slurry » Distributed Proofreading |
| | The Distributed Proofreaders system, an elegant and simple online collective solution to a difficult problem, and a [somewhat] Smart Mob for sure, is five years old this month. | | | My job, as proofreader in round 1, is to match the spelling to the original images — OCR, no matter what Google or the Internet Archive tells you, is far from 100% accurate, and it can make some egregious mistakes at times. | | | Over at Distributed Proofreaders, tonight I’m reading a piece from an old magazine we scanned several months back. |
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http://williamtozier.com/slurry/category/subjects/life-online/distributed-proofreading
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| | Pittsburgh, PA Dickens Fellowship |
| | Someone has to scan and digitize the texts, someone else has to proofread the digitized versions for errors, and others must format and post the prepared texts. | | | Visit Distributed Proofreaders today at http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php for more information. | | | All texts are described as fully as possible, so you know what you'll be looking at, and each is categorized at a beginner's or advance proofreader's or formatter's level. |
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http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~matobin
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| | MacSlash Distributed Proofreading |
| | Distributed re-touching: Playboy posts un-airbrushed photos and gets pr0n fans to do the PhotoShop re-touching for them. | | | But the real hard part comes next: proofreading the OCR'd input and making sure it matches the original pages. | | | Thank you for visiting the Distributed Proofreader (Score:2, Informative) |
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http://macslash.org/articles/02/11/12/2022211.shtml
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| | Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant |
| | The OpenPrivacy initiative is an Open Source collection of software frameworks, protocols and services providing a cryptographically secure and distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing user profile information. | | | There is also discussion within Google of the possibility of developing and marketing a phone with a built-in custom personal digital assistant that could let Google searchers work from anywhere they happened to be. | | | With this distriubution you just boot from the CD and you have a fully functional Linux OS distribution with open source applications targeted for the molecular biologist. |
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http://zillman.blogspot.com/archives/2004_02_01_zillman_archive.html
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| | Project Gutenberg Newsletter:
Distributed Proofreaders Update - Project Gutenberg |
| | The greater share of on-line distributed projects utilize the combined power of computer processors to take on large scale tasks. | | | It is a rare distinction among distributed projects, and worth making note of when recognizing the accomplishments of the project. | | | The name Distributed Proofreaders points up a significant aspect of the project. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/dp/index.php?article=2003_10_01.html
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| | Guiguts user guide |
| | I am not including jeebies in the guiguts distribution since it is larger than a whole guiguts distribution including gutcheck. | | | This program may be freely distributed, used, and modified. | | | This software has no guarantees as to it fitness to do this or any other task. |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thundergnat/guiguts.html
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| | How to Put Books Online |
| | To get more information about the Distributed Proofreaders, or to join the project, see their site. | | | Once you have your text entered and proofread, "publishing" it on the Internet is easy. | | | If you'd rather not start out with a whole book, but would like to try something smaller first, you might want to try one of the distributed book-posting projects on the Net. |
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bookinstr.html
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| | Distributed Computing - Active Projects |
| | Note: if a project is followed by parentheses, the project is run on a distributed computing platform. | | | The categories below contain projects which are not technically distributed computing projects: in these projects your computer connects to a project server or website to get work, but you do the work. | | | Try a project in one of the following categories. |
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http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html
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| | Population: One: Proof in the paging |
| | At the moment, Distributed Proofreaders has provided over 25% of Project Gutenberg& 10,000 books. | | | Project Gutenberg has the problem that proofreading OCRed... | | | Project Gutenberg has the problem that proofreading OCRed books is painfully time-consuming. |
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http://popone.innocence.com/archives/2003/12/28/proof_in_the_paging.php
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| | If you have a book that has been scanned, but not yet run through OCR (optical character recognition) or proofed, and you would like the Distributed Proofreaders to work on it, please email dphelp@pgdp.net and we will get things started. | | | You will be given the address of the nearest high-speed scanner. | | | "PROJECT GUTENBERG EUROPE" STARTS REGULAR ACTIVITY http://pge.rastko.net [Project Gutenberg Europe] http://dp.rastko.net [Distributed Proofreaders Europe] This past month marked the official beginnings of our new companion, Project Gutenberg of Europe with eBook entries expected in over 100 languages. |
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http://lists.pglaf.org/pipermail/gweekly/2005-July.txt
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| | Ailanto : Books |
| | for which they need proofreaders at Distributed Proofreaders. | | | Aldren A. Watson's Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction is an excellent resource if you're interested in doing a bit of that. | | | Ivy KELLERMAN : Complete Grammar of Esperanto (This book is also available as a PDF file, but the scanner had some problems with spelling and font styles and weights and such.) |
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http://www.kafejo.com/libroj
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| | Boing Boing: Distributed Proofreaders pass 4,000 ebooks |
| | Once the book has completed the proofreading process it is posted to Project Gutenberg where the ebook is available to the world for free. | | | OCR generated text is reviewed online and compared to page scans. | | | Come help us produce more free ebooks in more languages at Distributed Proofreaders. |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/10/distributed_proofrea.html
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| | jo's journal |
| | Such a project is massively-conducive to partwork micro-remuneration; the retired or semiretired, home carers, students, could 'work' as much as they liked, with no personal time-constraints; on such a project which needs human correction and circumspection on a task that a machine can only take so far. | | | I wonder whether the library initiative plans include making the extracted text available at all, for use in neat online corcordance projects like pepysdiary, or through channels like DP into the bona-fide public domain... | | | DP is a feeder project for the free 'etexts' at project gutenberg; organisers scan out-of-copyright texts, and submit the batch of pages with best-effort OCR scans, which are farmed out via the web to be proofed and corrected by volunteers, then reassembled into gutenberg-compatible texts. |
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http://frot.org/devlog/0012_dp.html
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| | ALA Fast Facts |
| | Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org and Distributed Proofreaders, http://www.pgdp.net/ May 3, 2004. | | | The site gets help from Distributed Proofreaders. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books. | | | Nearly 5,000 books have been posted to PG from the volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders. |
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http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/june04/fastfacts.htm
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News |
| | Distributed Proofreaders helps Project Gutenberg -- the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books -- provide free e-books to the public through the Internet. | | | The Web site led Lofstrom to Distributed Proofreaders, a Web site that provides the digitization of public-domain books. | | | This helps the pace of proofreading and the process of creating each e-book. |
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http://starbulletin.com/2003/12/01/news/story6.html
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| | Translate.org.za: First Afrikaans book on Distributed Proofreaders |
| | Distributed Proofreaders is a site to support the digitisation of Public Domain books. | | | Project Gutenberg the oldest Internet project which hosts thousands of e-books. | | | If you would like to assist then please register as a proofreader and begin proofing the book. |
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http://www.translate.org.za/archives/permalinks/2004-09-11T22_57_49.html
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| | William Webber's Home Page |
| | My work is a continuation of last year's, namely research and software development on distributed information retrieval engines. | | | As a result of this, I became interested in OCR, and contributed code to GOCR, an open-source OCR program. | | | Distributed Proofreaders, whereby people proof-read OCR'ed public domain books for contribution to Project Gutenberg. |
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http://www.williamwebber.com
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| | Joel's humanistic blog: July 2005 |
| | Most of the work of producing an accurate text is the work of correcting and formatting text that has been extracted by software (known as OCR) from a scan of a book's page; in DP, proofreaders log on to the site and, via specialized software, compare the digital text and image side-by-side. | | | It provides a way to indulge two of my favorite things, old books and computers, at the same time. | | | Also, it demystifies the process of producing electronic texts, which is easier than one might think. |
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http://joelschlosberg.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_joelschlosberg_archive.html
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| | Another cool mention from Slashdot, Distributed Proofreaders is a group dedicated to adding books to Project Gutenberg at a fantastic rate using a method similar to SETI@home's distributed processing. | | | Instead of running a screensaver on your computer, you compare a graphic scanned from a single book page against text OCRed from the graphic, and correct the typos. | | | the continuing adventures of erik swedlund, urban proofreader: Distributed Proofreaders |
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http://www.hipsmart.com/archive/2004_08_01_old.php
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| | BBC - h2g2 - H2G2 Researcher Team @ Distributed Proofreading |
| | A Short History of Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreading | | | BBC - h2g2 - H2G2 Researcher Team @ Distributed Proofreading | | | Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is a project to have members of the general public proofread etexts for placement in the Project Gutenberg (PG) |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A981065
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| | Jonathan Ah Kit's Section 27 and Public Domain Books Gallery |
| | Split Pages were created from double page originals, courtesy of Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders processes. | | | (Note: Covers have not been scanned.) Split Pages are supplied courtesy of Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders processes. | | | Scans supplied courtesy of Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders processes. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/g1
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| | Ant's Eye View: Discussion on Distributed Proofreaders Complete 5,000th E-Book |
| | Excerpt: Just another example of self organized distribution of effort accomplishing a very large task. | | | Here's links to Distributed Proofreaders & Project Gutenberg. | | | Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 5,000th ebook to Project Gutenberg. |
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http://jasonlefkowitz.net/moveabletype/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=1294
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| | Ole.Tange.dk - Distributed Proofreaders |
| | The PNG-files should be in two versions: One that is good for OCR (1-bit depth) and one that is good for humans to look at (4-bit depth). | | | For Distributed Proofreaders we needed a tool to chop multipage TIF- and PDF-files into PNG-files with a page each. |
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http://ole.tange.dk/projekter/dp
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| | 12121search |
| | If LLR finds a prime number, it will appear in your prime.txt output file under the header information. | | | This will include more information in your results file and help us further understand the distribution of large primes. | | | Open your llr.ini file that will be generated in the same folder as your llr.exe and add the following lines to the bottom |
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http://12121.vocabulate.com
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Electronic Text Archives: Project Gutenberg |
| | Distributed Proofreaders - This site produces ebooks for Project Gutenberg. | | | Distributed Proofreaders Europe - Same as Distributed Proofreaders but focused on works in European languages other than English and on works that are in the public domain in Europe. | | | You can help proofreading ebooks; just one page or as many as you like. |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/Project_Gutenberg
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| | Forme of Cury - Cunnan |
| | This version was prepared by the Distributed Proofreaders. | | | An e-text of the Forme of Cury is available from Project Gutenberg. | | | This page was last modified 23:12, 2 Jan 2005. |
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http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Forme_of_Cury
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| | Arts & Crafts-Related Webpages |
| | Several other Hubbard books are also available from Project Gutenberg, which archives the work of the Distributed Proofreaders. | | | Distributed Proofreaders, a completely volunteer group, working on making books by Elbert Hubbard freely available in digital form. | | | Their stated goal is to make all of Elbert's works freely available to anyone who wants to download them. |
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http://www.roycrofter.com/related.htm
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| | Distributed Proofreaders : Java Glossary |
| | A part of Project Gutenberg to scan uncopyrighted books and proofread them for the public domain. | | | You are here : home : Java Glossary : D words : Distributed Proofreaders. | | | You can volunteer as a proofreader and help out. |
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http://mindprod.com/jgloss/distributedproofreaders.html
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| | AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory |
| | A huge archive of free etexts of works that are in the public domain in the U.S.A. Text listings, search engine, newsletter, articles and information on how to help creating more etexts. | | | Same as Distributed Proofreaders but focused on works in European languages other than English and on works that are in the public domain in Europe. | | | People can help proofreading etexts; just one page or as many as they like. |
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http://www.att.net/cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/Project_Gutenberg
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| | Sir George Tressady, Vol. II, by Mrs. Humphry Ward : Arthur's Classic Novels |
| | E-text prepared by Andrew Templeton, Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders. | | | II *** E-text prepared by Andrew Templeton, Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Note: This book was originally published as two separate volumes. | | | This Project Gutenberg edition preserves the two-volume format primarily because of the length of the novel. |
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http://arthurwendover.com/arthurs/ward/8sgt210.html
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| | Internet Archive Forums: View Posts |
| | OCR output for indexing, proofreading, and maybe research | | | Re: OCR output for indexing, proofreading, and maybe research | | | Pls report more djvu bugs-- a developer has fixed all the posted ones |
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http://www.archive.org/iathreads/forum-display.php?forum=toronto
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| | Internet Archive Forums: View Post |
| | I'm from Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreading team -- http://www.pgdp.net/. | | | I thought I'd let you know that over the next few months we're going to be working through the material in this collection, and processing it through our site to create ebooks which will eventually be added to the Project Gutenberg collection -- http://gutenberg.org/. |
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http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=33534
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