Uploading a New Ebook
Volunteers upload the master format for their completed eBook to the Project Gutenberg server, where it undergoes automated and manual checks before the new eBook is posted and announced online. Prior to the upload, the copyright clearance must be completed.
Upon uploading, automated checks include:
HTML checks for validity of the HTML encoding (via the W3C validator);
HTML checks for internal link structure;
Spelling checks (English, with limited support for other languages);
Typo/scanno checks (seeking common scanner/OCR errors, such as “he” for “be” and vice-versa);
Conversion checks.
The conversion check consists of using the ebookmaker application to automatically generate derived formats. Ideally, resulting files will include:
Plain text in UTF8 encoding;
Automatically generated HTML (if HTML is not the master format).