[Wikisource-l] On linking Wikisource with page images

Luiz Augusto lugusto at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 23:06:17 UTC 2008


On Jan 21, 2008 2:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Off and on for many months been working on a project to import a large
> collection of public domain historic scientific documents into
> Wikimedia's collection.
>
> My standing plan has been to pre-organize and catalog the collection,
> then upload the document images as DJVU files (which are utterly tiny
> compared to tiffs or pdfs) to commons including a OCRed Text layer
> (for search and copy and paste).
>
> I would then begin importing documents into Wikisource, starting with
> the OCR but eventually having a full marked up output.  From there the
> documents could be extensively linked and referenced from the other
> Wikimedia projects.

(...)

wow, nice!

Just for curiosity: these works are on what languages?
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