On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey(a)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
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John Vandenberg