is there a better term than "folk integration" (which I just made up) for when 2 incompatible software systems are bridged by human labour?
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example is cutting something out of 100 web pages and pasting into a spreadsheet
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data entry is too complex/intensive; I'm thinking little tech crap joblets shotgun-blasted throughout the day.
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German translators sent content as Word, I opened in gdocs, them pasted into html in WP. 50-footnote-fixing schlep
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I probably would have converted it to a .fods then knocked out a quick xslt
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ODS has way more accessible structure than MS Word; flat ODS is all in one mungeable XML file instead of a JAR-like thing.
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meaning a 5-minute XSLT script could turn the whole thing into HTML.
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