Sri Bhasya (SBE 48) to eText - Any Volunteers?

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Converting SBE 48 Sri Bhasya to eText:

 

For some time now I've been exploring ways to get books on

Sri Vaishnavism (sv-books) wider distribution, so individuals

like myself could gain access to these books either at their

local library or online.

 

Placing sv-books at local libraries in the US requires

some groundwork (which will be done over time),

For now, it so happens that the Sacred Books of the East Vol. 48,

which is G. Thibaut's translation of Sri Ramanuja's Sri Bhasya,

is beyond copyright and a good candidate to be placed

online as an eText.

 

Given that, I chose to make the necessary enquiries and began

the process of turning it into an eText.

 

The process is broadly as follows

 

1 Gain copyright clearance

This has been done with http://www.sacred-texts.com and is

being finalised with http://promo.net/pg

2 Scan in the book

3 OCR the scanned pages into text

2&3Being done by me

4 Proofread it, using appropriate format guidelines

Could use volunteer help here

5 Place proofread eText online

The easy part.

 

Item 4 is the most time consuming (and interesting), and it is here

that I'd like to request for volunteers. The task involves looking at

the scanned image of the page, and ensuring that the text matches the

image, keeping a few formatting rules in mind.

 

There are a total of 800 (400,2-up)pages, which I've broken into

blocks each consisting of 5,2-up pages, which could be comfortably

done in one sitting.

 

Do send me an email if you are interested in helping.

 

Thanks

Srinivasan Sriram

e ajiva_rts

 

 

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Moderators note:

 

This is a very worthy effort. Please volunteer as much as possible.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

varadhan

 

 

S. Sriram

 

 

 

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