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	Distributed Proofreaders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a project to support the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg.
		Distributed Proofreaders was founded by Charles Franks in 2000 as an independent site to assist Project Gutenberg.
		Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distributed_Proofreaders (345 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Distributed Proofreaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is a project to support the development of e-text (additional info and facts about e-text) s for Project Gutenberg (additional info and facts about Project Gutenberg).
		Distributed Proofreaders was founded by Charles Franks (additional info and facts about Charles Franks) in 2000 as an independent site to assist Project Gutenberg.
		Among many other works, Distributed Proofreaders is currently working on producing a complete electronic edition of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (additional info and facts about 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica), the volumes of which will be available on Project Gutenberg as they are finished.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/distributed_proofreaders.htm (351 words)

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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.
		Statistics as to the number of pages proofread are monitored and used as a motivational device for proofreaders to improve their output.
	www.scienceofcollaboratories.org /Resources/collab.php?361 (1544 words)

	Legal Proofreading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Proofreading is reading a proof copy of text for the purpose of detecting errors.
		The Peachtree Editorial and Proofreading Service, based in Peachtree City, Georgia, is a small company specializing in the proofreading of bibles for typographical errors, founded c.
		Most of the English-language bibles published in the United States are proofread by this company, including the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and the NIV/The Message parallel Bible http://www.zondervan.com/media/pdfs/0310928893.pdf.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/114/legal-proofreading.html (658 words)

	Distributed Proofreaders publishes 5000 etexts (press release) — Project Gutenberg EU
		Distributed Proofreaders, main supplier of Project Gutenberg books, has published its 5,000th free ebook today for everyone and anyone to share and enjoy.
		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.
	www.gutenberg.nl /press/dp-5000-pr (994 words)

	Encyclopedia: Distributed Proofreaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An e-text (from electronic text; sometimes written as etext) is, generally, any textual information that is available in a digitally encoded human-readable format and read by electronic means, but more specifically it refers to files in the ASCII text file format.
		Proofreading means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors.
		Today, proofreading usually refers to reviewing any text, hardcopy or electronic copy (on a computer), and checking for all types of errors.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Distributed-Proofreaders (854 words)

	TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » 5 Years of Distributed Proofreaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Distributed Proofreaders, in case you did not know, is the principal supplier of etexts to Project Gutenberg.
		Distributed Proofreaders was run from a computer in Charles Franks’; home, until somewhere in 2002 the Internet Archive offered to host the site instead.
		In all fairness, Distributed Proofreaders was not the first of its kind: the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, a “Project Gutenberg” for christian etexts, uses a similar system that predates Charles Franks’; software.
	www.teleread.org /blog/?p=3747 (1099 words)

	A blog doesn't need a clever name
		Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of Public Domain books.
		Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg (PG), Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is now the main source of PG e-books.
		In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site and as such is supported by Project Gutenberg.
	blogs.salon.com /0001004/2004/04/11.html (658 words)

	MacSlash \| Distributed Proofreading
		I saw a subject line over at slashdot from a "Distributed Proofreaders" member, asking 'dotters to contribute their time to proofread just a page a day.
		While the idea of distributed proofreading is an interesting one, it seems to miss the main point of editing and is, therefore, of rather limited application.
		Proofreading is mainly concerned with grammatical mistakes, incorrect spellings, and other screwups of the English language.
	macslash.org /articles/02/11/12/2022211.shtml (902 words)

	Distributed Proofreading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Enlist an army of volunteers to proofread, one page at a time, text destined to be added to the Project Gutenberg e-book program.
		Proofreaders compare an image of a scanned page of classic literature to the text recognized by an OCR program.
		After two rounds of proofreading, the result is submitted to Project Gutenberg.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~bailen/wisdom/Site01.html (156 words)

	Opera Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity to be bought, sold or traded.
		Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books.
		Distributed computing for biodiversity research, education and conservation worldwide, especially to forecast environmental events and inform public policy with leading-edge science.
	portal.opera.com /web?cat=5800084 (887 words)

	DC - Active Projects - Human
		A proofreading interface is displayed in your web browser, and you can proofread pages for the project one at a time.
		The project has personal stats pages and rankings for proofreaders so that each proofreader can see how he or she is doing compared to other proofreaders.
		This is not a true distributed human project (in that it is not organized as a project and does not use specific tools), but you can participate relatively easily.
	distributedcomputing.info /distrib-2004/ap-human.html (1591 words)

	Dossiers du NEF - Project Gutenberg, from 1971 to 2005
		This article is dedicated to all Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders volunteers on the five continents, who offer us a free library of 16,000 high-quality eBooks, mainly classics of world literature, with a goal of one million eBooks in ten years.
		Distributed Proofreaders was conceived in 2000 by Charles Franks to help in the digitizing of public domain books.
		DP Europe uses the software of the original Distributed Proofreaders and is dedicated to the proofreading of eBooks for Project Gutenberg Europe.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /french/foire2000/dossiers/gutenberg_eng.htm (7730 words)

	TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » DP5: The communities of Distributed Proofreaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Distributed Proofreaders is a system for automating and distributing the task of proofreading etexts.
	www.teleread.org /blog/?p=3756 (1023 words)

	Distributed Proofreaders
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	www.freelancewritingresource.com /writing/distributed-proofreaders.html (442 words)

	[gmonthly] EXTRA! Special Edition -- D.P. Milestone
		DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS UPDATE - OCTOBER 19, 2004 "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to humanity, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." --Joseph Addison TABLE OF CONTENTS [ ] The 5,000th Title Collection - What has been accomplished.
		The most advanced of these at present is Distributed Proofreaders Europe, initiated and maintained by the Rastko family of archives and cultural initiatives based in Belgrade.
		Because the labor is broadly distributed, we often lose sight of the scale of what is being accomplished over time.
	lists.pglaf.org /pipermail/gmonthly/2004/000003.html (3426 words)

	Proposal for scanning Proceedings and producing a digital library — Project Gutenberg EU
		Part of the process and one of the largest contributors to PG is Distributed Proofreaders ("DP").
		The distributed proofreading model approaches the production of e-books in a less daunting method than if an individual were doing all of the work on their own.
		My goal, although it is dependent on the progress through the proofreading rounds, is to have at least the first 50 years available on Project Gutenberg to celebrate the 100th anniversary of NNGA.
	www.gutenberg.nl /Members/branko/diglib-nnga-proposal (2445 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing: Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Distributed Hardware Evolution Project (DHEP) - Using a desktop's idle time, arrive at designs of self-diagnosing circuits superior to those produced by conventional design.
		Distributed Proofreaders Europe - Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
		American Scientist: Collective Wisdom - Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity to be bought, sold or traded.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing/Projects (1220 words)

	Kirk Pearson's Weblog
		In 2000, Charles Franks created the Distributed Proofreaders project to help speed up the process of creating electronic books.
		Then a simple proofreading interface is displayed and a volunteer can proofread pages of the project, comparing the OCRed text to the image of the page, and making any corrections necessary to the text.
		You can proofread a sentence while you're waiting for another web page to load, a paragraph while you're waiting for your document to print, or a page while you're waiting for someone else to finish talking on a conference call.
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/kpearson?entry=just_one_page_a_day (553 words)

	jo's journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		after a brief wikipedia ramble i found myself at the distributed proofreaders europe site, almost as if wikipedia was expelling me to go do something more constructive instead.
		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.
		Distributed call centres are the obvious parallel application; about 450,000 people work in call centres in the UK, apparently.
	frot.org /devlog/0012_dp.html (423 words)

	TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet
		Scientifically and economically, voluntary distributed computation communities are still in their infancy - but they appear to be healthy and growing infants.
		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.
		Combine social networks (you and your friends compete to contribute the most pages proofed or craters counted) with distributed computation techniques, and mobile devices, and you get something more productive to do than checking your email once again or playing a game while you are sitting on a train or waiting in line.
	www.thefeaturearchives.com /100468.html (845 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Soon after, Lofstrom, a Makiki resident who helped launch Internet service provider LavaNet, became a volunteer for Distributed Proofreaders and is helping the company and Project Gutenberg proofread and release the original version of its first book in the Hawaiian language, "The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai," as an e-book.
		Distributed Proofreaders helps Project Gutenberg -- the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books -- provide free e-books to the public through the Internet.
		According to its Web site, Distributed Proofreaders was founded three years ago by Charles Franks to support the digitization of public-domain books, or books not protected by copyright.
	starbulletin.com /2003/12/01/news/story6.html (316 words)

	DP -- Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the site of Distributed Proofreaders Europe, which is a service of Project Gutenberg Europe, Project Rastko, and the Global Translation Project.
		When a proofreader elects to proofread a page of a particular book, the text and image file are displayed on a single web page.
		Proofread as often or as seldom as you like, and as many or as few pages as you like.
	www.rastko.net /dp (834 words)

	Dan Moore!: With enough eyeballs...
		I referred to Project Gutenberg obliquely here, but browsing their site I found that they've implemented distributed proofreading.
		The OCR went quickly, but the proofreading was slow going and error prone; the story wasn't exactly riveting, but it was in the public domain.
		But Distributed Proofreaders solves the proofreading problem by making both the scanned image and the OCRed text available to me in a web browser.
	www.mooreds.com /weblog/archives/000108.html (252 words)

	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)
		Distributed Proofreading allows people to proofread one page of text at a time, through their web browser.
		The theory is that if 600 people proofread one page per day, each day a 300 page book can be proofread twice and soon after added to PG.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A981065 (401 words)

	ipedia.com: Distributed Proofreaders Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Distributed Proofreaders is a project to support the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg.
		By June 2004, Distributed Proofreaders had contributed over 4,500 books to Project Gutenberg with 300+ being contributed every month.
		Gutenberg had a total of 12,500 books at that time, showing that one-third of its books had come through Distributed Proofreaders.
	www.ipedia.com /distributed_proofreaders.html (317 words)

	Boing Boing: Distributed Proofreaders pass 4,000 ebooks
		Distributed Proofreaders is a volunteer driven website that is committed to putting Public Domain books online.
		Once the book has completed the proofreading process it is posted to Project Gutenberg where the ebook is available to the world for free.
		On April 6th Distributed Proofreaders posted it 4,000 ebook: "Aventures du capitaine Hatteras" by Jules Verne.
	www.boingboing.net /2004/04/10/distributed_proofrea.html (172 words)

	Population: One: Proof in the paging
		Distributed Proofreaders is one of those cool things enabled by the Internet.
		It takes a few minutes to proofread a single page; you do five, and you’ve made a difference.
		At the moment, Distributed Proofreaders has provided over 25% of Project Gutenberg’s 10,000 books.
	popone.innocence.com /archives/2003/12/28/proof_in_the_paging.php (359 words)

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