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Distributed Proofreaders è stato fondato da Charles Frank nel 2000 come sito indipendente per aiutare il Project Gutenberg. DP è divenuto sito ufficiale di Project Gutenberg nel 2002.
L'8 novembre 2002 Distributed Proofreaders è stato [[Effetto Slashdot|pubblicizzato su Slashdot]],<ref>{{citecita web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteers%27_Voices#Suzanne_Shell|titletitolo=Gutenberg:Volunteers' Voices|publishereditore=[[Project Gutenberg]]|lingua=en|accesso=03-04-2011}}</ref><ref>{{citecita web|url=http://www.boingboing.net/2002/11/12/distributed-proofrea.html|titletitolo=Distributed Proofreading's slashdotting|publishereditore=[[Boingboing]]|lingua=en|data=12 novembre 2002|accesso=03-04-2011}}</ref> e più di 4mila nuovi membri si sono iscritti in un solo giorno, aumentando significativamente il numero di correttori e sviluppatori software; ciò portò a un miglioramento qualitativo e quantitativo degli e-book. Nell'ottobre 2004 Distributed Proofreaders ha raggiunto i 5.000 e-text inviati al Project Gutenberg, e nel marzo 2007 ha raddoppiato il numero. I 15.000 e-book sono stati raggiunti nel maggio 2009. Quasi la metà delle opere attualmente presenti su Project Gutenberg sono state create dai volontari di DP.
Il [[31 luglio]] [[2002]] è stata istituita la Distributed Proofreader Foundations, per dare un'entità legale e lo status di [[organizzazione no-profit]] al progetto.
On 31 July, 2006, the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation was formed to provide Distributed Proofreaders with its own legal entity and [[Non-profit organization|not-for-profit]] status. [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] approval of section [[501(c)|501(c)(3)]] status was granted retroactive to 7 April, 2006.
== ProofreadingProcesso processdi correzione ==
Opere di [[pubblico dominio]], solitamente libri il cui copyright è scaduto, vengono acquisite tramite scansione da parte dei volontari oppure selezionate da progetti di digitalizzazione; in seguito le immagini vengono sottoposte a riconoscimento dei caratteri tramite [[software]] [[OCR]]. Spesso il riconoscimento non è esatto, e nel testo risultante sono presenti numerosi errori. Per correggerli, le pagine sono rese disponibili ai volontari attraverso Internet, affiancando l'immagine originale al testo trascritto.
[[Public ___domain]] works, typically books with expired copyright, are scanned by volunteers or culled from digitalization projects, and the images are run through [[optical character recognition]] (OCR) [[software]]. Since OCR software is far from perfect, often a large number of errors appear in the resulting text. To correct them, pages are made available to volunteers via the Internet; the original page image and the recognized text appear side by side. This process thereby distributes the time-consuming error-correction process, akin to [[distributed computing]].
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Besides custom software created to support the project, DP also runs a forum and a wiki for project coordinators and participants.
== Related Projects ==
=== DP Europe ===
In January 2004, Distributed Proofreaders Europe started, hosted by [[Project Rastko]]. This site has the ability to process text in [[Unicode]] [[UTF-8]] encoding. Books proofread are centered mainly on European culture, with a large proportion of non-English texts including Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu and many others. {{As of|2007|alt=As of December 2007}}, DP Europe had produced over 480 e-texts.
The original DP is sometimes referred to as "DP International" by members of DP Europe. However, DP servers are located in the [[United States]], and therefore works must be cleared by Project Gutenberg as being in the [[public ___domain]] according to U.S. [[copyright]] law before they can be proofread and eventually published at DP.
=== DP Canada ===
On 1 December 2007, [[Distributed Proofreaders Canada]] launched to support the production of e-books for [[Project Gutenberg Canada]] and take advantage of shorter Canadian [[copyright]] terms. Although it was established by members of the original Distributed Proofreaders site, it is a separate entity. All of its projects are posted to Project Gutenberg Canada, which launched on [[Canada Day]] 2007.
In addition to preserving Canadiana, DP Canada is notable because it is the first major effort to take advantage of Canada's copyright laws which may allow more works to be preserved. Like copyright law in many other countries, Canada has a "life plus 50" copyright term. This means that works by authors who died more than fifty years ago may be preserved in Canada, whereas in other parts of the world those works may not be distributed because they are still copyright.
Notable authors whose works may be preserved in Canada but not other parts of the world include [[A. A. Milne]], [[Walter de la Mare]], [[Sheila Kaye-Smith]] and [[Amy Carmichael]].
== Numero di e-book ==
! Link al Project Gutenberg
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! 1, 000
| 19 febbraio 2002
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! 2,000th 000
| 3 Sepsettembre 2003
| Hamlet -- the 'Bad Quarto', [[William Shakespeare]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9077 etext 9077]
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! 3,000th 000
| 14 Jangennaio 2004
| The Anatomy of Melancholy, [[Robert_Burton_(scholar)|Robert Burton]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10800 etext 10800]
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! 4,000th 000
| 6 Apraprile 2004
| Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras, [[Jules Verne]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11927 etext 11927]
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! 5,000th 000
| 24 Augagosto 2004
| A short biographical dictionary of English literature, John William Cousin
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13240 etext 13240]
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! 6,000th 000
| 2 Febfebbraio 2005
| The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, [[Sir Walter Scott]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14860 etext 14860]
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| 23 Jungiugno 2005
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! 8,000th 000
| 8 Febfebbraio 2006
| The Suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, W. E. B. Dubois
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19179 etext 19179]
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| 8 Sepsettembre 2006
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| 9 Marmarzo 2007
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! 11,000th 000
| 12 Sepsettembre 2007
| Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943, Northern Nut Growers Association
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22587 etext 22587]
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! 12,000th 000
| 26 Jangennaio 2008
| Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, [[ Sigmund Freud]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24429 etext 24429]
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! 13,000th 000
| 24 Jungiugno 2008
| A world of girls, [[L. T. Meade]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25870 etext 25870]
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! 14,000th 000
| 1 Decdicembre 2008
| The Art of Stage Dancing, [[Ned Wayburn]]
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27367 etext 27367]
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! 15,000th 000
| 12 Maymaggio 2009
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666, Various. [[Henry Oldenburg]] (editor)
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28758 etext 28758]
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! 16 000
| 1 ottobre 2009
| ABC Petits Contes, [[Jules Lemaître]]
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! 17 000
| 4 marzo 2010
| The Position of Woman in Primitive Society, C. Gasquoine Hartley
*| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/ 2078031500 ''Heimatlos''etext 31500] by Johanna Spyri (German)▼|-----
! 18 000
| 15 giugno 2010
| Area Handbook for Romania, Eugene K. Keefe, et al.
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/32700 etext 32700]
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! 19 000
| 10 novembre 2010
| The banshee, O'Donnell, Elliot
| [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34263 etext 34263]
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== Note ==
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=== 10,000thCollegamenti E-bookesterni ===
On 9 March 2007, Distributed Proofreaders announced completing more than 10,000 titles. In celebration, a block of 15 titles was published:
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20785 ''Slave Narratives, Oklahoma'' (A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves)] by the U.S. [[Work Projects Administration]] (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20784 ''Eighth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology''. (1891 N 08 / 1886–1887)] edited by [[John Wesley Powell]] (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20777 ''R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs''] by [[Randolph Caldecott]] [Illustrator] (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20783 ''Como atravessei Àfrica'' (Volume II)] by [[Serpa Pinto]] (Portuguese)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20782 ''Triplanetary''] by [[E. E. Smith|E. E. "Doc" Smith]] (English)
▲* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20781 ''Heidi''] by [[Johanna Spyri]] (English)
▲* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20780 ''Heimatlos''] by Johanna Spyri (German)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20779 October 27, 1920 issue] of ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20778 ''Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees''] by [[John Evelyn]] (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20776 ''Encyclopedia of Needlework''] by [[Therese de Dillmont]] (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20775 ''The annals of the Cakchiquels''] by [[Francisco Ernantez Arana]] ([[floruit|fl.]] 1582), translated and edited by [[Daniel Garrison Brinton|Daniel G. Brinton]] (1837–1899) (English with Central American Indian)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20774 ''The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties'' (1921)] by [[Richard Runciman Terry]] (1864–1938) (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20773 ''Le marchand de Venise''] by [[William Shakespeare]], translated by [[François Guizot]] (French)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20772 ''Agriculture for beginners'', Rev. ed.] by [[Charles William Burkett]] (English)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20771 ''Species Plantarum'' (Part 1)] by [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (Carl von Linné) (Latin)
==See also==
*[[List of digital library projects]]
==References==
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* [http://www.etudes-francaises.net/dossiers/gutenberg_eng.htm#languages Dossier at ''Net des études françaises'']
==External links==
* [http://www.pgdp.net/c/ Distributed Proofreaders]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dproofreaders software Distributed Proofreaders software] atsu [[SourceForge]]
*Other sites using versions of DP software:
** [http://dp.rastko.net/ Distributed Proofreaders Europe]
** [http://www.pgdpcanada.net Distributed Proofreaders Canada]
** [http://www.marefa.org/dp/ DP Marefa المعرفة المخطوطات]
** [http://www.ebookforge.net/c/ eBookForge.net]
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