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Subject: Re: Warning of an erroneous district
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:20:33 +0000
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> Recently I have been double-keying and out of interest I did some searches to
> see how well I was agreeing with the?first transcribers.? On the whole I
> found an encouraging degree of agreement. In the process I noticed that quite
> often, where there was a discrepancy, it was due to the wrong district being
> taken from the picklist.? Moreover, the search was usually able to indicate
> which of the two transcriptions was wrong because the page number did not fit
> the known page map.
>
> I wonder therefore whether it would be feasible to modify WinBMD so that, if
> one attempted to save a file with a district and a page which did not fit the
> map, the program would give one of its polite little Jeeves-like coughs and
> say "Is that really what you meant, Sir (or Ma'am)?"
It would be very tricky to achieve, for two reasons;
1) The map files involved would be huge
2) There would be a need to download a new set of map files every time the
database was updated
These discreppancies are what second keying is designed to cure, in a further
stage of reconciliation see http://www.freebmd.org.uk/process.html.
I would, however sound one note of caution (which your co-ordinator may well
already have sounded)....
Second keying is only truly effective if it is done "blind". The temptation to
compare with the first transcription is huge, but doing so, and then potentially
altering the transcription causing them to match would evade the next stage
where at least two more people will independently consider all mis-matches.
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