[Athen] Information on E-Text Production Database?

[Heidi Scher]

While I do like SharePoint, it definitely has it's downside as well.  I'm
looking forward to hearing what Ron & Gaeir have to say in hte advanced
etext institute!

Robert, I have to admit that I haven't checked screenreader access on
SharePoint.  My initial guess would be if there is any access, it's going to
be limited.  But that's only a guess!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!



On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Ron Stewart <ron at ahead.org> wrote:


>  We all come at this from a little different perspective,

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> From my experience when you exceed about 50k pages per academic period I

> don't think excel can continue to give you the level of detail and data

> collection your administration is going to require if they take a look at

> your resource expenditure.  A more sophisticated system will also provide

> you with a good tracking system for your entire program from book tracking,

> Copywrite oversight and tracking your workers.   Gaeir and I discuss this in

> some depth in our "Advanced" Etext Institute which will also be offered at

> AHG in November as well as other times during the coming year.  I am looking

> at model systems to add to the AHEAD resource site as well.

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> Perhaps a move to Access, as we did initially at OSU will take you to the

> next level but eventually I think a real database is going to be needed.

> MySQL served us well after some fits and starts for several years and

> provided not only alt format, but captioning and AT tracking as well across

> a large system.  SharePoint is great if you can afford it.  AMAC as Bob

> mentioned has one of the most sophisticated systems I have seen and while it

> may be overkill for a lot I think it is worth taking a look at along with

> the system the CSU-CAM has developed.

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> What you want to avoid at all costs is having to go back and reinvent the

> wheel several times as your program grows and develops.  Also as more

> regional centers and consortia develop having a system that is easily

> integrated into the larger systems already in place is going to save a lot

> of us a lot of headaches down the road.

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> Lessons learned the hard way, or from someone else's trials and

> tribulations are the best lessons, or as Einstein so apply put:

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> Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different

> results.

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>  Ron Stewart

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> *From:* athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] *On

> Behalf Of *Kelmer, Susan M.

> *Sent:* Friday, August 15, 2008 9:28 AM

> *To:* Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Information on E-Text Production Database?

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> The AMX system will work for that, but it is cumbersome as well, as you

> have to enter all the data.  I think no matter what you come up with, you

> are going to have a cumbersome system.

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> I am keeping simple records in an excel database, it seems to work for us.

> My conversion clerks write down how much time they spend on each particular

> aspect (scanning, ocr, text-cleanup) to the nearest 15-minutes.  It gives me

> a pretty good read on how long it takes to convert things, although I don't

> really care as much about the little parts as I do the big picture.  Our

> goal here is a 4-day turnaround, and if we make it within four days I'm

> happy, five days I'm satisfied, any more than that and I'm looking to see

> where we can improve.

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> I will be presenting a lot of the information on how we do this here at the

> Accessing Higher Ground conference in Boulder in November.  Hope you can

> make it, it will be a worthwhile lecture.

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>

> *Susan Kelmer*

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> *Adaptive Technology Specialist/*

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> *Lab Coordinator, Campus Labs and Classrooms*

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> *St. Louis Community College - Meramec*

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> *314-984-7951*

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> *From:* athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] *On

> Behalf Of *Balen, Tim

> *Sent:* Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:33 PM

> *To:* athen at athenpro.org

> *Subject:* [Athen] Information on E-Text Production Database?

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> Colleagues,

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> I'm looking for advice or suggestions on creating a database for tracking

> e-text production.  We are working on one now within our office, but I am

> concerned it is becoming cumbersome and labor intensive.  Essentially we are

> looking to record and store, completed text conversions, conversions in

> progress, time spent per conversion & per editor.  Any information would be

> appreciated on or off the list.

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> Thank You!

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>

> Tim Balen

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> Washington State University

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> 509-335-7904

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> www.drc.wsu.edu

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