On Jan 21, 2008 2:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell <<a href="mailto:gmaxwell@gmail.com">gmaxwell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greetings.<br><br>Off and on for many months been working on a project to import a large<br>collection of public domain historic scientific documents into<br>Wikimedia's collection.<br><br>My standing plan has been to pre-organize and catalog the collection,
<br>then upload the document images as DJVU files (which are utterly tiny<br>compared to tiffs or pdfs) to commons including a OCRed Text layer<br>(for search and copy and paste).<br><br>I would then begin importing documents into Wikisource, starting with
<br>the OCR but eventually having a full marked up output. From there the<br>documents could be extensively linked and referenced from the other<br>Wikimedia projects.</blockquote><div>(...) <br></div><div><br>wow, nice!
<br><br>Just for curiosity: these works are on what languages? <br></div></div><br>