User:Jhellingman

About Myself

Userboxes This user is a Content Provider. What am I going to do with all these books? This user is a Project Manager. Where the buck starts. This user is a Post Processor who loves [** notes]. This user does the post-processing with TEI.

I am an active volunteer for Project Gutenberg for some 25 years, and one of the main providers of Dutch and Philippines related materials. I also initiated the Project Gutenberg of the Philippines as a Philippine sister of PG.

I am married with Rodelyn, who comes from the wonderful island of Bohol, the friendly heart of the Visayas in the Philippines, and have two sons, Joshua and Raphael, 22 and 18 years old at the time of writing. We live in the medium sized Dutch town of IJsselstein, a short distance from Utrecht, and very close to the geographical center of the Netherlands. Hence, we have a 366 meters high television tower almost in our backyard.

In my professional life, I am a software engineer, working on banking software for Triodos Bank, a Dutch bank founded to finance change and change finance. Before I worked with GE Healthcare IT, Shortcut, a small Dutch software company, Philips Medical Systems, Ericsson, and, for one and a half year with a small multimedia company in Gujarat, India. More details are available on LinkedIn.

I was educated at the University of Utrecht, from which I hold the equivalent of an M.Sc. in computer science.

Interests

• Materials related to the Philippines (in any way) If you have any such book, I will be happy to PM and PP it.
• Materials in Dutch. I am trying to build a basic collection of Dutch works, taking on me the following categories
  • Original Dutch literature, while trying to avoid duplication with the DBNL. In future, I actually want to include public domain material that is present in this collection, by scanning originals, doing just one round of proofreading, and then diff-ing with their materials to fix remaining issues.
  • Translated world literature (into Dutch), opening up the world's classics to a Dutch audience.
  • Translated Dutch literature (into English, or any other language I can deal with), opening up the world's audience to Dutch classics.
  • Reference works, to serve as a seed for Wikipedia like projects.
  • Travel and Exploration.
  • De Aarde en haar Volken, my long running mega-project to digitize the first 60 years of this interesting magazine.
• Travel, Exploration and history of colonialism in general.
• Dictionaries
• Anthropology
• Biology, Animal and Plant life.
• Science in general, and the popularization of science.

Non-Interests

I will avoid books in the following categories unless the work is very important.

• Religion (except when part of anthropological works, treated from a non-followers' point of view, or extremely curious. This is no absolute, as I did submit a complete Dutch Koran to PG.)
• Poetry (it can't interest me, and the amount of work that goes into formatting is considerable.)

Roles within PGDP

• Providing Content
• Project Management
• Post Processing
• Direct Uploading

Fields of Expertise

• Scanning: I am an active scanner, and have scanned over three hundred books.
• Processing Graphics: I have considerable expertise with scanning illustrations and processing these in Photoshop.
• HTML: I create HTML versions for all my projects, and develop websites.
• TEI: As one of the TEI pioneers within PG, I create TEI source files for all my projects. Note that my TEI files do not conform to PGTEI. The reason is ninety percent history (I have over 1000 TEI files following my conventions: converting them and testing the result is real work), and ten percent a difference in design philosophy.
• XML and XSLT: Since I don't follow PGTEI, I am on my own. My XSLT tools to convert TEI to HTML and ePub are available from Github for those interested.
• ePub and PDF: My Tei2Html conversion tools can also handle those: PDF with a little help of Prince XML
• Revision Control Systems. If you need help with keeping track of large sets of files and the changes to them, I might be able to advise you. I currently use both Git and Bazaar at home; I also worked with several others in the past. I keep all my PG related work in a large Bazaar repository. (I cannot give public access to this repository, as it includes uncleared materials, mainly the various sources I use for background information. I publish some of my TEI source files at https://github.com/GutenbergSource)
• Cover Pages: Designing new cover pages for old books, using as much as possible only materials found in the book.

Address

Jeroen Hellingman

Please send me a PM if you want my phone number or address.

If you have any questions, send me a personal message.

Works

Wanted

• Works missing illustrations.
• Works related to the Philippines.
• Works by Dutch authors in English translation.
• Travel and Exploration.
• Dutch classics.
• Dutch Reference Works.
• Classics of world literature in Dutch translation.
• Sagen en Legenden.
• Castes and Tribes of ....
• Publiekstijdschriften.
• Missing Pages.

Moved to public space:

• Sacred Books of the East.
• The Hakluyt Society.

Help Wanted

• ASCII Table Formatting.

In Progress

It is my intention to list works in progress here. Corrections and additions are welcome. For the works I list here, I have a PG clearance, but not all are scanned yet. If you have a particular interest in one of the works, tell me. The years indicate the year of the copy I have at hand, and is not necessarily the first year a work appeared. A year in brackets is derived from library records.

• De Aarde en haar Volken
• The National Geographic Magazine
• Philippine Works in Progress +
• Dutch Works in Progress
• Dutch Canon according to the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
• BoekMeter.nl top 250
• Other Works in Progress
• Post-Processing Status
• Previews of works in Progress

• Dennys' The folk-lore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races

Completed

My personal vanity lists... I will gradually add works I've contributed to (as CP, PM, or PP, or otherwise) for Project Gutenberg here.

• Please mention Bugs in Works Completed here!
• Works Completed (Alphabetical)
• Dutch works in Project Gutenberg (Verbose, by subject)
• Philippine works in Project Gutenberg (Verbose, by subject)

Interesting Links

In User Space

• Some thoughts on a future DP 2.0
• Some thoughts on a Digital Libraries and Web 2.0
• A Project Gutenberg Bugtracker
• Blog
• Books for Sale
• Modern Nederlands
• Historisch Nederlands
• Sanskrit transliteration

• My General Guidelines for Dutch Language Texts
• My personal TEI guidelines
• My personal tools (in perpetual development)
• Post-processing work-flow
• Image processing work-flow
• My personal Scrapbook
• Goede en foute woorden
• Nederlandse Uitgeverijen tot 1950
• Lord Lister

• Adopt an Author

Internal

• DP Control Panel.
• In-progress Check.
• Acquiring Dutch Books.
• Identifying Published or In-Progress Books.
• Publishing scans at the Internet Archive.
• Accessible_HTML_eBooks.
• Overview of Good and Bad wordlists (PM's only)
• Neglected Projects Page (please help my projects stay out of these lists)
• My PP Status
• Skips and Repeats

External

Dutch

• Catawiki list of my books
• Boekenblog.
• Het Groene Boekje On-line, in de versie van 2005.
• Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal. The Dutch equivalent of the OED, full text on-line.
• De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren. A large text collection of Dutch literature. Before scanning works, I typically check here to avoid duplication of work.
• Een eeuw boeken.
• Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie. Includes a large database with biographic details of Dutch and international artists. Great for finding hard-to-find death dates.
• Picarta, the Dutch counterpart of WorldCat (requires login).
• Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht, the library of my University.
• Library of Congress Catalog.
• Value of Guilder, 1450-2005, can help to find out what a book cost in terms of today's money. For example, a Jules Verne novel sold in 1880 for f 1.50, would be equivalent to € 13.69 in 2005. The same book can currently be ordered online for € 5.99 to € 22.50. Of course, it can now also be downloaded for free at PG. Note that these prices are not indicative of the psychological cost of a book at the time, as salaries in terms of purchasing power have increased dramatically. (US/UK version: Measuring Worth.)

• Nederlandse proza en poëzie uit de 19de eeuw.
• De Leestrommel: vol van Indische damesromans.

• LibraryThing.

Copyright

• Stanford Copyright Renewal Search Tool.
• Sound Copyright | MEPs

Graphics

• OptiPng Optimizer for PNG images.

TEI

• The official home page of the TEI Consortium.
• TEI Guidelines at the University of Michigan, from the official TEI documentation.
• TEI Guidelines of the UW Madison Libraries, with nicely illustrated examples.

TeX

• LaTeX to image converter with lilypond support.

Philippines

• The United States and its Territories. A large and interesting collection of books on US colonial expansion. Page images of over 5000 books.
• Southeast Asia Visions. A nice selection of travelogues and descriptive works on Southeast Asia. Good quality page images.
• Philippine eLib. An effort to digitize Philippines related works by the Philippine government and some major universities. Access to actual scans requires a paid subscription (PHP 1200 or about USD 25 per month), or affiliation with the supporting organization. Most scans are of rather low quality, and need to be checked for completeness. Includes a lot of materials hard to obtain otherwise, such as 19th century Tagalog novels. Includes both PD and copyrighted materials and the metadata is not always reliable.

The animal in my avatar is a Philippine Tarsier, a small "monkey" which occurs on the island of Bohol in the Philippines, as well as a few other Philippine islands.