Andrew Turvey, 27/08/2009 16:20:
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.
Well, yes. I think that 100,000 € is the basic investment (see IFLA 2009).
Could you tell me more about the "transcription" tasks? Have we got access to any resources that are awaiting transcription?
Do you mean apart from 1,593,519 texts only on http://www.archive.org/details/texts ?
Nemo