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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter 1st October 2003 Part 2
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
In this issue of the Project Gutenberg Monthly newsletter:
1) Editorial
2) News
3) Radio Gutenberg update
4) Mailing list information
Hello,
A roundup of this month's best and most informative articles is given
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newsletter now that if I repeated them all in the monthly, you would
get a four part newsletter, so expect radical updates to the
newsletter website within the next week to allow you to read all the
things you might have missed.
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New Project Gutenberg E-Book: Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope
(Sept 2005, E-Book #8897, nnblt10.txt/zip and nnbld10h.htm/zip)
Project Gutenberg has made available one of Anthony Trollope's most unusual
books, Nina Balatka. The book is unusual in several respects. First, it is
set in Prague rather than the British isles, and it does not deal with
Trollope's usual characters, the nobility and landed gentry. Second,
Trollope's usual witty editorial comments are absent. Third, while the book
is ostensibly the story of two lovers, Nina Balatka and Anton Trendellsohn,
they are already in love and engaged at the start of the novel. And finally,
what makes this book most unusual is starkly stated in the remarkable opening
sentence of the novel:
Nina Balatka was a maiden of Prague, born of Christian parents, and herself a
Christian--but she loved a Jew; and this is her story.
This situation raises few eyebrows at the beginning of the 21st century, but
it was a shocker in the highly anti-semitic culture of mid-19th century
England. Trollope published the novel anonymously in 1866. In his
autobiography he claims he did this to determine whether his books sold
because of his name or because of their quality. One must suspect that the
controversial subject matter led him to publish this book anonymously or at
least to select it for his experiment.
The book is short by Victorian standards. Its plot deals largely with the
obstacles to the marriage of the two lovers resulting from their religious
differences and from the schemes of Nina's relatives. It contains one of
Trollope's most remarkable women, Rebecca Loth, a Jewish girl (in love with
Anton) who befriends Nina and eventually saves her life. Another wonderful
character is Nina's Aunt Sophie, who reminds one of Mrs. Proudy, the bishop's
wife, in Trollope's Barsetshire novels. While the book is one of his
lesser-known works, it's powerful, relentless plot and well-drawn characters
make it excellent reading and deserving of greater acclaim.
Those who read many of Trollope's novels are bound to wonder whether he was
anti-semitic. Unquestionably they contain countless derogatory references to
and descriptions of Jews. But do these references reflect Trollope's own
views or the views of the realistic characters he created? In Nina Balatka it
is his Christian characters who are greedy, scheming, and conniving; his
Jewish characters for the most part act with honesty and compassion. Was this
contrast drawn on purpose?
This edition of Nina Balatka is itself unusual in that it includes an
introduction written specially for Project Gutenberg by Joseph E.
Loewenstein, who scanned and prepared the E-text. In it Dr. Loewenstein
provides background for the reader and explores the question of whether
Trollope was anti-semitic.
Joseph Lowenstein
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The Solar System series Jon and I have been working on for the past year or so
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reader acquiring the "right" sort of curiosity in the world, when procedural
skills are acquired because insight and intuition demand them. In this way
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This Issue's Quiz: Science Fiction Classics!
Match the titles with the first lines (you can always
cheat by visiting the URL).
[We have two newsletter smarty-pants awards waiting for your correct answers-Ed]
===Titles===
1. Looking Backward / Edward Bellamy
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/lkbak10.txt
2. The Poison Belt / Arthur Conan Coyle
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext94/poisn10.txt
3. The War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/warw11.txt
4. The Land That Time Forgot / Edgar Rice Burroughs
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/tlttf11.txt
5. From the Earth to the Moon / Jules Verne
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext93/moon10.txt
6. A Princess of Mars / Edgar Rice Burroughs
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext93/pmars10.txt
7. The Time Machine / H.G. Wells
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext92/timem11.txt
8. Lost Continent / C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext95/lostc10.txt
9. The Lost World / Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext94/lostw10.txt
10. 20000 Leagues Under the Seas / Jules Verne
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/2000010a.txt
===First Lines===
a. It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events
are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that
exactness of detail which time may blur.
b. It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoon
that it happened--the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916.
c. I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am
a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have
never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.
d. Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person
upon earth,--a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man,
perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own
silly self.
e. The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of
him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
f. The year 1866 was marked by a bizarre development, an unexplained
and downright inexplicable phenomenon that surely no one has forgotten.
g. I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
h. No one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly
and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as
mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their
various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps
almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scru-
tinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water.
i. During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was
established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
j. We were both of us not a little stiff as the result of
sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary
the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be
trifled with.
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Other news items this week
Project Gutenberg Website Update
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Call to arms - The Gutenberg Bible
Guess what? My wife thinks PG has the Gutenberg Bible
online. We don't.
This _LARGE_ project will require an army of
volunteers (including me) who are willing to surf to
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp and save the
images onto their hard-drives manually, then another
army to convert the color files to B&W so that another
army (of one) can train Abbyy Finereader to recognize
it so that we don't have to type it in (although we
_WILL_ if we have to). Then it will hit DP and go
through proofing.
An immense project but one well worth doing. They said
we couldn't/shouldn't/wouldn't, but we will.
Won't we?
Contact garvint@yahoo.com to enlist. There are no 4Fs
in _this_ army.
Ted Garvin
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Distributed Proofreaders Update
This week's newsletter goes to press right at the start of a new
month. As October already promises to be an active and exciting month
at DP, we are going to focus on some of what's in store for the weeks
ahead of us.
First, a look back the month behind us. September started off in a
quiet manner, which was set in sharp contrast following the page
proofing marathon run to meet the monthly page objective within the
final hours of August. After that party we all needed a little Siesta,
maybe the server too. September did not finish anywhere near as quiet
as it began. Pulling together, the widely dispersed community of
proofreaders worked in a steady, dedicated fashion over the following
weeks. September saw a level of consistent high production which gave
the impression of a home-grown SlashDot event. The goal of proofed
pages for the month was met, and met well, and some impressive records
were set for DP history.
We come away from the successes of August and September with a
deepened sense of who we are and what we are capable of as a
distributed, but united community. What we each came to DP to work
upon we find empowered and increased upon itself by the strength and
support of this committed alliance. As we explore this distributed
Human network together, we are learning new things about the process
everyday, and more, we are learning about ourselves.
The name Distributed Proofreaders points up a significant aspect of
the project. DP is a network of allied individual people. The greater
share of on-line distributed projects utilize the combined power of
computer processors to take on large scale tasks. The results at DP,
while dependent upon the technology, are produced by the time, talent
and dedication of flesh and blood individuals. It is a rare
distinction among distributed projects, and worth making note of when
recognizing the accomplishments of the project.
There is no disputing the fact that the quality and output levels of
DP are on the rise. This is not a recent phenomenon, but the
cumulative result of craft and innovation that has been invested into
the endeavor from the very beginning. If I hold in mind a primary
objective for this weekly column it is to reveal and explore the
diverse craft-cultures which work to make up the finished product at
DP. Nothing happens independently within this process, the final texts
are the direct result of several stages of development. Some of these
stages have nothing directly to do with the text itself, such as the
creation of the code which runs DP and the building of the tools which
enhance and expedite the labor intensive text work. Every stage is
essential, all are interdependent. DP functions at it's best when
these diverse craft-cultures hold a unified vision and set their
intentions shoulder to shoulder. Glimpses of this dynamic force have
been shining through over the past few months with increasing regularity.
I will go on the line here and say that I believe October is going to
reveal just how unique and productive this unified creative force has become.
Within the next few days a major upgrade to the DP site will be
released. As always, this has developed and extensively tested in a
manner consistent with all work at DP. Broad participation in 'kicking
the tires,' so to speak, is not only encouraged but has long been an
essential component in the code development process. As expected,
there's still a little nervousness that we have set everything in the
correct place and squashed all the bugs we can possibly find. But
overall, we're ready for the rollout. However, there are still 48
hours or so within which you could prove to be the genius who finds
something the rest of us have missed. Checking is still underway, and
if you have not tried the testsite as yet, please do, and offer the
coding crew the benefit of 'fresh eyes.' Look for the New Release
thread at the top of the General forum.
Among the many new features, I will begin with one that is sure to be
a hit within the Project Gutenberg community:
MARC Record Search & Enhanced Project Creation Interface. Project Managers
will now be able to search the Library of Congress catalogs for MARC record
data on their projects. From within the Project Panel, managers can create both a
MARC record and a Dublin Core XML file for their project.
I think I can hear the PG librarians sighing already!
For the legions of proofers, Joseph Gruber has cooked up something Very Tasty:
Detailed Statistics. - DP member stat's with a history of pages
proofed, best days, neighborhood views with some info on friends and
neighbors and your own personal stat chart. The Team statistics have
been upgraded as well. There are now displays of who is on the team,
history of page count totals, best days, and more. An added search
feature has also been added to both Member and Team statistics.
Other enhancements, in no certain order, include:
Project Queue Upgrades. - The project queues have been enhanced so as
to keep more of a variety of projects available at any given
time. Site Administrators will also have more flexibility in tweaking
project status for special needs or timely events.
Inclusion of XML Icons. - There is now an enhanced visibility of our
XML/RSS feeds with icons guiding managers to their locations. (The
start of something really big here!)
Zip File Uploading of Projects.- No longer do you have to FTP over a whole
directory of images and a whole directory of text files. Just zip the
project elements into one file, and upload directly from a hard drive.
LOCALISATION!! - (That's right, all caps.) Potentially, this is our most
important New feature. Members will now be able to get the site in
their native language. From the initial upgrade, languages available
are German, French, Finnish & Portuguese. There is also a translation
center available for those languages not as yet represented. Please
Note... If you are willing to translate portions of DP, you will find
enthusiastic support. Just post a note in the Future Features forum
with your intention and someone will promptly reply.
Time and space does not allow to list all the many features, but I
think you get the sense of how much work the coding team has put into
this major upgrade. On the whole, many small aspects to the site have
fixed which were noted over the summer. There should be noticeably
fewer bugs and errors throughout all the stages of development. Did I
hear someone mention 'site speed?' Oh yeah! They didn't forget ya'!
Did I say October was going to be exciting?
Two other events to watch for beginning today are Post Production
objectives and Authors' Birthday celebrations. Bill Keir, DP's Site
Admin', has studied the present status of projects which are within
the final stages of post processing and verification. Bill has set for
October a Goal for completing a certain number of projects by the end
of the month. I have seen the blueprints, and I would agree that
with a well structured and cooperative effort this figure of 300 texts
posted to PG, while higher than any previous month, is a realistic
objective. To reach it though, we are going to need to draw strongly
upon that 'unified creative force' we have been tapping into recently.
Finally, on the fun side of the month, we are beginning a completely
new feature at DP. A few weeks back, Tim Bonham, the author and
maintainer of DP's Proofing Guidelines came up with an idea for
increasing interest in, and thus PG content of, authors who are either
marginally represented in Project Gutenberg or not at all. Well he
clearly hit on to something big here, because the idea has gained
strong support, and will become a regular monthly feature from October forward.
In brief, as they are now waving at me from behind the curtain (who? me?
- Ed), Authors who have a birthday within a present month will receive
'special attention' from all levels of DP. This endeavor is growing
and expanding with each day, so I will keep a small space for current
updates within each column. The limits on obscure authors seems to
have already been lifted, although underdogs will always get highest
priority. If you want to learn more, suggest ideas or become actively
involved, look for the Author Birthday threads in both General and
Content Providing forums.
One little follow up note to the Banned Books week initiative. We have
located and prepared one of the banned books not yet in PG; Gustave
Flaubert's 'The Temptation of Saint Antony.' Hint: If I were you, I'd
get to the First Round soon, it's due in at any moment now! (Okay,
I'll see what I can do to hold it back a few hours!)
That's all for now! (Well, not really, but they're already sweeping
the stage.[It's amazing what you can get horses to do these days -
Ed]) Next week we'll return to our regularly scheduled broadcast and
pick up where we left off in our explorations of the DP process: Pre
Production and the Tools that buzz text preparation along.
For now...
All the best to everyone, and enjoy October!
Thierry Alberto
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