When the volunteer finishes indexing the book then EYB would set a quota for the paid indexer to finish all the checks. The indexer could act as the data manager to the volunteer, field questions from the volunteer and submit any questions they are unable to answer or data modifications to the EYB data manager. This would become secondary to their paid indexing job. So the volunteer enters in all the data from the book they want in the EYB library and the indexing "buddy" (who is a paid indexer) helps them along with the process. How about if volunteers have an indexing "buddy". What I wouldn't want, for obvious reasons, would be for this service to take away from EYB's indexers time and efforts. I'm imagining pricing would have to be on a scale based on size of book or # of recipes. Not sure if this would be a viable option but it would be interesting to see if others are interested and, whether it's possible. I'd love to receive a "book indexing voucher" as a gift as well. Not sure how readily available paid indexers are or, what it costs to index a book but if you were able to retain additional services, might EYB consider offering members the option to pay for a book to be indexed? I may not have time to index a cherished book that would not otherwise hit the priority list for EYB indexing but, I may be willing to pay a fee to have it indexed by EYB so I can make better use of it. I do think allowing members to index books is a good idea, provided they are comfortable adhering to these standards. If all info from member indexed books is going to be made available for viewing by all EYB members then I believe member indexing should be held to the standards and level of excellence that EYB upholds.
I look forward to hearing what you think. Of course the same is true if a book isn't indexed at all, but at least at the moment you know what is and isn't indexed on your Bookshelf. Many books would remain only partly indexed which doesn't allow members to find many recipes. I feel this takes away from the principle of adding a book to your Bookshelf and being able to search through all recipes at once. That we get members just to index individual recipes rather than entire books.And the paid indexer will need the book to complete the categories (recipe name is not always enough to identify ethnicity, recipe type, course, season, etc). Secondly, it will be hard to track down many of the books that members chose to index. I don't like this idea for a couple of reasons - firstly, it takes paid indexers away from "popular" books, to re-index books that could be owned by just a few members. That we ask member indexers to only enter the recipe name and ingredients, leaving all categories (which seem to be most problematic for new indexers) to be done by a paid indexer.I don't think that would be in the interest of all members. I feel this would create a 2-tier data structure, where member indexed books had more mistakes. That we hold members to a lower standard, not expecting them to apply the same rules as paid indexers.This can be offputting to a volunteer.Ī few suggestions have been made so I would welcome members views:
RECIPES NOT SHOWING UP IN MACGOURMET PROFESSIONAL
In order for the data to be consistent with all the books and magazines we have indexed with our professional indexers, there are a lot of guidelines and rules to follow.
RECIPES NOT SHOWING UP IN MACGOURMET TRIAL
As our trial indexers have found, it isn't just a question of opening up a cookbook and starting typing. We do have a few trial members indexing now but given how much help and support is needed, especially at the start, we feel we cannot open up member indexing to all members until we take on another staff member to handle it. Thanks for your enthusiasm loroloff - I have asked our data manager, Deborah to contact you.
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