Content Providing Advice

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This page page links to pages created by DP users giving advice or helpful resources. When in doubt, always follow the Official Documentation, including the Content Providing FAQ, or ask for help on The Official "No Dumb Questions" Thread for Content Providers,

Choosing a Book

The first step in content providing is finding a book to work on. There are two types of advice here in this Wiki:

Wanted Books

You can find lists of books people have requested here:

Lists of Books

See Category:Lists of books for lists of books by subject, author, and more.

Checking for Duplicates

Copyright basics and clearing works

The content provider is responsible for obtaining copyright clearance from Project Gutenberg. Clear your project before you do anything else.

  • Is your project in the public domain? Copyright clearance explains how to check.
  • Searching the Copyright Renewals: There was a time where each book had to have its copyright manually renewed in order to retain it. Works which were renewed under this law are listed in the Copyright Renewals.

Starting with a Physical Book (Scanning)

If you're starting from a physical copy, the next step is scanning in the images. Skip this step if you're starting with scans from an online archive.

  • Finding Books to Scan is all about getting your hands on a copy of your chosen book.
  • Recommended Scanners: A forum thread to recommend and discuss scanners which are suitable to provide scans.
  • Book scanners: A list of recommended scan hardware. The material on this page is dated, and scanner technology changes quickly enough that it's better to look for online reviews, and ask in the forums for current information.
  • Scanning tips: This is a script to help perform some of the scanning functions--it automatically 'flattens' the image and convert from greyscale to black/white. Last documented to work with GIMP 2.4.
  • Preparing page scans: How to make the perfect scans for your proofers/formatters.
  • Preparing illustration scans: How to provide perfect illustrations for the final HTML version of the project.

Missing Pages

  • How to avoid missing pages in your project: A few tips on how to avoid the CPs worst nightmare: missing pages.
  • Missing Pages: Use this page to request scans of missing pages. Of course you can also help others complete their projects.
  • Missing Page Finders: If your project contains missing or incomplete pages, and you are unable to find a replacement, you can check here for volunteers which may be able to help you. It also shows which libraries they have access to.

Starting with Online Images (Harvesting)

Main page: Harvesting.

See the Harvesting wiki page for a complete overview of how to harvest images from an online archive. The most important links for harvesting are:

Image Processing

Now that you have your scanned or harvested images, you need to get them into the right format for OCR, for proofing images, and for post-processing.

OCR

Miscellaneous Links

The next step: Project Management

Once you've got the images and text ready, your project is ready to move on to the next step: Project Management.

If you're going to be managing the project yourself, start with the official docs, epecially the Project Managing FAQ.

If you are only interested in providing content and need to find someone to manage the project for you, try the Content Providers seeking Project Managers wiki page, or ask on the Discussion Forums.

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