Yes, I take your point. However, much of the scanned material is subject to copyright, and
the people who've invested in the scanning are often keen to get a return on their
investment and not release it to us! The concept we were thinking about is linking with
municipal archives, saying - we'll scan your records for you if you release them to us
copyright-free afterwards. Not sure if it's a runner at the moment, which is why
I'm asking the question to see what others have done.
Could you tell me more about the "transcription" tasks? Have we got access to
any resources that are awaiting transcription?
Thanks
----- "John Vandenberg" <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: "John Vandenberg"
<jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, 27 August, 2009 03:46:58 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Digitisation equipment
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
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