That's great that MIT is such a supporter of open source.
Is there a list of the titles that have been digitized? When I look at the link it only shows a partial title and some of the authors do not show at all, for instance, what to make of "Reference" or "The Outline of", or "Vol 1: The". It looks like you would have to click at least a hundred times to see what is there, which might be frustrating for newbies. You might think about a list organized by subject, for instance chemistry or music, so people can pick a topic they are interested in.
Is there a special template for the organization or the collection? I have just started seeing this at events, mostly used for photographs donated as a group. I try to use these if they are available as think it helps the people who evaluate uploads for copyright status.
One thing I have noticed about streaming music (or hatnote) during events is that it can slow down the internet considerably, even if you only have a few people editing.
It was interesting to see the first volume of Sigrid Undset's "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy. https://archive.org/details/bridalwreath00unds_0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Lavransdatter HathiTrust has the original Norwegian in full view https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158001902476;view=1up;seq=1 but the English editions only have limited view https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006055797
It looks like the North American Free Trade Agreement (USMCA or "NAFTA 2.0") may not get passed - it still has to be ratified by U.S., Canadian, and Mexican legislatures, and there has been a lot of negative publicity recently (but none of it so far AFAIK about Berne or copyright). Still, some are still taking it very seriously, there is some rumor that Wikilivres has moved their domain out of Canada.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 10:50 AM phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
- Nemo - cool!
- Marie - that is fantastic, best of luck. I am sad to learn about the
Canadian copyright issues. But I am very glad to learn about any initiatives involving Wikipedia editing and library & information science schools - we need much more of this!
- Kerry - thanks for all the good advice, good for any event. I have run
many editathons, but usually I pick a somewhat looser topic that is easier to find a variety of articles to work with. Side note: I would like to challenge our community to host more editing events that *don't* involve writing biographies - though they are easy to start with, there is so much more to do! All of your advice about Wikiprojects is good for this.
- Bob - it sounds like we need a jazz project! I was thinking of at the
very least playing 1923 jazz during the event :)
Any other public domain related events or ideas? PS: here are the books we digitized in honor of the day: https://archive.org/details/mitlibrariespublicdomain
best, Phoebe
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:08 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
The English Wikisource is busy adding books, starting of course from the ubiquitous Gibran:
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Template:New_texts&diff=9024...
Federico
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