On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK board meeting about potentially buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate content for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked my interest.
Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is?
Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this?
This came up on the Australian Wikimedia list.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaau-l/2009-August/002606.html
I think it is terribly inefficient for Wikimedians to start mass scanning projects while we have so few people engaging in transcription projects. Libraries have scanned millions of books, and there is no signs that they are going to stop. Commons and Wikisource should be mining and transcribing these books which are already scanned.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaau-l/2009-August/002611.html
-- John Vandenberg