On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
I think that IA Upload tool is a critical step in the
Wikisource
workflow,
and I wonder if maybe Sam (as a Community Tech employee) could
dedicate some time to it.
Tpt can't maintain everything by himself...
For years, I've explained to *a lot* of GLAMs that uploading
stuff on IA
and then using Wikisource is the way to do things, and I'm sure this
is the standard way in other places
too.
Yes, I agree: the IA-Commons-Wikisource workflow is a thing that should
be encouraged no end! :-)
As far as my work-programming time goes, you (I say 'you' but I just
mean 'not-me', for CoI reasons) just need to get tickets onto the Community-
Tech board, then I can perhaps look at them. Which basically means they
have to contribute towards a Wishlist item.
There's Wishlist #44:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120785 -
*Implement an Internet Archive-like digitalization service.*
I reckon it'd be great to be able to at least upload a PDF or Djvu with
no text layer, and have it create one (either on the same file, or to
upload a new derived file).
—Sam