[Wikisource-l] unz.org - new digitization/archiving effort

[Erik Moeller]

Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal
project that he's been working on for a long time:

http://www.unz.org/

It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which
hosted there, some externally.

Examples:

http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRev
http://www.unz.org/Publication/Century

Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI:

http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug

According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their
writings. A couple of examples of author pages:

http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHL
http://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith

Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's
PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has
permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case,
there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I
haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a
research library for Wikipedians as well.

Cheers,
Erik

-- 
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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