Using a part extract from your email, in hindsight in my initial email I should have stated "I am also seeking information about how these files are approached by syndicates to ensure any instructions cover existing practice in a formal way". Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Steve Gaunt <[email protected]> To: Allan Raymond <[email protected]> Date: 15 July 2004 20:12 Subject: Re: +PAGE's for double page scans >>Hindsight is a marvellous thing. >Sorry Allan, you have lost me >Steve >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Allan Raymond" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:32 PM >Subject: Re: +PAGE's for double page scans > > >> Good, I can now get on with writing up the contents of the instructions! >> >> Hindsight is a marvellous thing. >> >> Allan Raymond >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Gaunt <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Date: 15 July 2004 18:23 >> Subject: Re: +PAGE's for double page scans >> >> >> >> No, and we aren't trying to make it difficult at all. >> > >> >Well, Allan's original email asked for comments on the wording of the >> >instruction to be entered in the knowledge base, not the content. >> > Whilst Allan's concern was the +PAGE consideration, the problem lay with >> >the actual content as both the instruction to treat the image as one file >> >and the file name format displayed were contrary to how I do things. >> > Some transcribers may have believed from the content of Allan's proposed >> >instruction meant that they were giving their transcribers the wrong >> >instructions, as all Allan asked coordinators to comment on, was the >> >wording, not the instruction. >> > It would, perhaps, have been better if Allan had sought information >about >> >how these files are approached by syndicates before making any attempt to >> >word an instruction, though he can't be blamed for not realising that >some >> >syndicates treat the images as two files as I myself had no idea that >some >> >coordinators treat the image as one file! Please note that I didn't >decide >> >myself to enter the image as two files (despite the obvious logic in >doing >> >so) but sought advice from higher up prior to allocating scans. >> >Anyway, if either way is acceptable, as long as that is made clear then >> >there is no problem, >> >Steve Gaunt >> >Croscan >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >From: "Dave Mayall" <[email protected]> >> >To: <[email protected]> >> >Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:29 AM >> >Subject: Re: +PAGE's for double page scans >> > >> > >> >> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:07:25 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >> >> >Alan, >> >> >Why are we making this so difficult? This syndicate has all double >page >> >> >scans transcribed as two single pages, almost a complete quarter, >> >following >> >> >the practice in the John Slann syndicate. It means all pages can be >> >checked >> >> >as having been completed, and if a transcriber only does one, it >> happens, >> >we >> >> >are immediately aware of it. Does this mean that we will all have to >> >conform >> >> >to these unwieldy files. >> >> >> >> No, and we aren't trying to make it difficult at all. >> >> >> >> Your syndicate splits the files into single pages. Other syndicates, >> >> because of the way they allocate work to transcribers need them to be >> >> transcribed as two pages to a file. >> >> >> >> Each syndicate should proceed in the way that suits it best. We aren't >> >> going to make you combine files, neither are we going to make other >> >> syndicates split their files. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dave Mayall >> >> >> >> >> >> ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== >> >> Want to help FreeBMD? >> >> Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. >> >> >> >> ============================== >> >> Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >> >> Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >> >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== >> >Want to help FreeBMD? >> >Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. >> > >> >============================== >> >You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from >> >http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== >> Thank you Rootsweb for hosting the FreeBMD project and its mailing lists. >See http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> >> ============================== >> Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >> Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >> >> >