Some research libraries in Stockholm (at archives and museums) have put up book scanners that the public can use. They have the same function as a public copier, but you get your copies on a USB stick rather than on paper.

Since years there are lots of FREE to use (Zeutschel) scanners in most German academic libraries.

On 06/13/2013 05:47 PM, Klaus Graf wrote (on Wikisource-l): Is there any documentation on how to use them for Wikisource?

proofreading books that have already been scanned by institutions?

The same question goes to Tomasz (on the cultural-partners mailing list) for the Polish case. Maybe it is obvious for you, that these options exist in your countries. But I think good documentation and the international network of the Wikimedia community can provide inspiration for other countries. No, I think they are all different models. There seems to be no coordination in Sweden. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Wikimedia Sverige - stöd fri kunskap - http://wikimedia.se/ Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Some research libraries in Stockholm (at archives and museums) have put up book scanners that the public can use. They have the same function as a public copier, but you get your copies on a USB stick rather than on paper. This opens an interesting opportunity for Wikisource and similar volunteer book scanning projects. Instead of buying expensive equipment, experimenting with cameras and lighting, or building your own scanner, you can just visit such a library. I guess you can even bring your own book and scan it there, instead of just using the library's books. (Of course you still need to consider copyright. That goes without saying.) Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish chapter of the WMF, started a wiki page to document some experience from this kind of use, in Swedish of course, https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allm%C3%A4nhetens_bokscanner Here is an example of a book that was scanned this way, http://runeberg.org/nordmuseet/1897/0001.html (Ironically, it is the annual report for 1897 of the museum where it was scanned. They have the scanner standing in their own library, but they have not scanned their own reports.) Are you familiar with anyting similar? Any other pages that we should link to? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Wikimedia Sverige - stöd fri kunskap - http://wikimedia.se/ Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ _______________________________________________ Cultural-Partners mailing list Cultural-Partners(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for permission before forwarding emails off-list.