Re: Let's introduce ourselves

Fantastic, I'll check it out!
Yeah, let's get connected and see if we can bring something together.

Cheers,
Zheng

On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 9:46 PM Jens Tröger <jens.troeger@light-speed.de>
wrote:

> Hello Eric, Zheng,
>
> To chime in on Gutenberg: Eric and I met around the time when the new
> Project Gitenburg ( http://gitenberg.org/ ) started and we briefly
> discussed a11y at that point (at BEA 2015 it was, I think?)
>
> Bookalope understands the Gutenberg .txt format and is able to turn those
> text files into accessible EPUB3 automatically; it can also read the
> existing ebooks and turn them around. However, particulalry the olden ebook
> files from Gutenberg contain funky HTML which is a bit of a challenge to
> run through the structure classification.
>
> Since then, Bookalope has much improved though… 🤓
>
> Zheng, feel free to go browsing the Bookalope API (
> https://github.com/bookalope/Bookalope/blob/master/API.md ) and I’m happy
> to connect with you and make some of our internal tools accessible through
> our API if needed.
>
> With many greetings,
> Jens
>
> --
> Jens Tröger, Founder of Bookalope
> web: https://bookalope.net/
> twitter: @bookalope
> phone: +61-424-893427
>
>
> > On Mar 20, 2022, at 02:10, Xu Zheng (gardenia) <zxu@gardenia-corp.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eric
> >
> > Very glad to see members from Free Ebook Foundation and Gutenberg here.
> >
> > My platform https://wysebee.com/ is aiming to index all the epub
> (accessible digital books) from internet and improve accessibility
> experience for them automatically.
> >
> > In last a few weeks I have indexed all the reachable books from
> Gutenberg, some from Unglue.it and other website. I think now user can
> search Gutenberg books on wysebee.com and enjoy some a11y enhancement.
> >
> > The platform is still at early stage. I am indexing more and more books
> and trying to gain more knowledge on accessibility. Very look forward to
> feedback from everywhere!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Zheng
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2022-03-18 1:26 p.m., Eric Hellman wrote:
> >> Hi, Eric Hellman here.
> >>
> >> I've been helping various non-profits on tech and metadata to support
> free ebooks.
> >>
> >> I'm currently helping Project Gutenberg with their back-end software; I
> expect to start rolling out 67,000 titles in EPUB3 later this month.
> >>
> >> I also run Free-Programming-Books, which is the 2nd most popular repo
> on GitHub!
> >> https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/
> >>
> >> Eric Hellman
> >> President, Free Ebook Foundation
> >> Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
> >> https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
> >> twitter: @gluejar
>
>