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

[Ray Saintonge]

One of his features is the ability to find magazine articles quickly.  
Having the material there, on Wikisource, or elsewhere has limited value 
if people can't find it easily.  The other thing that needs working on 
is a system of cross-linking within and between projects.  Having 
material at more than one site also helps to protect its availability.

Ray

On 12/02/11 9:12 PM, Craig Franklin wrote:
> Agreed with Ray here, the watermarking and "licencing agreement" for 
> stuff that's public domain is a bit of a turnoff.  Otherwise, it would 
> be great to cross-reference what Wikisource has and what this site 
> has, find out what he has that we don't, and take steps to correct 
> that ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
> On 3 December 2011 09:58, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net 
> <mailto:saintonge at telus.net>> wrote:
>
>     This is an interesting and useful site, but prohibiting the electronic
>     reproduction of the content, even as it applies to material that is
>     indisputably in the public domain is not on the spirit of open
>     software.
>
>     Ray
>
>     On 12/01/11 5:15 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>     > 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
>     >
>