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Dear Scott (and dear all), Thanks for this offer! There are a number of things that we may want to do to improve that list but a proofread of the text would be a great start. The OCR was very rough and I corrected a LOT but there is plenty to do. I really enjoyed working with this -- it was my task over the break when I was not working on the mother of all proposals and I found it charming to get into the contents of the PG. Another task will be comparing the start and end columns and the assumed volumes to make sure that these are accurate but that means going to the PG. You can do that by going to Roger Pearse's list of PG volumes http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/patrologia-graeca-pg-pdfs/ and then looking for the columns. This is our first foray into trying to engage volunteers -- something that is essential bug we are trying to figure out how to do it. Its easy to become a bottleneck -- we HAVE at Perseus become bottlenecks, because there aren't enough of us. When you are behind in work, its easy to put your head down and keep going because helping people to help on the work is harder in the short run. If you download the text and start proofreading it, that would be a big help. In the meantime, we need to sort out what specific tasks people can do. I will set up a mailing list for this so that we don't burden DigitalClassicist. More on this soon - and thank you all for your interest and patience as we figure out how to open things up! Greg On 1/19/15 7:00 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > I have taught Latin (classical and medieval) and medieval Greek and have proofread many papers. I am disabled but have much spare time. > Scott Catledge, PhD/STD, Professor Emeritus, history and languages > > ---- Gregory Crane <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Help sought with Metadata for the Open Patrologia Graeca Online >> >> >> <http://tinyurl.com/p39fx3f> >> >> [draft -- January 19, 2015] >> >> Gregory Crane >> >> Perseus Project and the Open Philology Project >> >> The University of Leipzig and Tufts University >> >> >> We are looking for help in preparing metadata for the Patrologia Graeca >> (PG) component of what we are calling the Open Migne Project, an attempt >> to make the most useful possible transcripts of the full Patrologia >> Graeca and Patrologia Latina freely available. Help can consist of >> proofreading, additional tagging, and checking the volume/column >> references to the actual PG. In particular, we would welcome seeing this >> data converted into a dynamic index into online copies of the PG in >> Archive.org, the HathiTrust, Google Books, or Europeana. For now, we >> make the working XML metadata document available on an as-is basis. >> >> more info: http://tinyurl.com/p39fx3f