---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Von: "Estermann Beat" beat.estermann@bfh.ch Datum: 14.06.2013 08:44 Betreff: [WCA-Digitization] Public Book Scanners in Research Libraries An: "wca-digitization@wikimedia.ch" wca-digitization@wikimedia.ch

Dear all,

I would like to point you to a discussion on Wikisource-l about the use of public book scanners in research libraries by Wikipedians/Wikimedians.

I’m just including the first message; the follow-up messages can be found in the archive of the mailinglist.

Kind regards,

Beat

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikisource-l/2013-June/001393.html

Lars Aronsson lars at aronsson.se Thu Jun 13 13:39:39 UTC 2013

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Some research libraries in Stockholm (at archives and

museums) have put up book scanners that the public

can use. They have the same function as a public

copier, but you get your copies on a USB stick rather

than on paper.

This opens an interesting opportunity for Wikisource and

similar volunteer book scanning projects. Instead of

buying expensive equipment, experimenting with

cameras and lighting, or building your own scanner,

you can just visit such a library. I guess you can even

bring your own book and scan it there, instead of just

using the library's books. (Of course you still need to

consider copyright. That goes without saying.)

Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish chapter of the WMF,

started a wiki page to document some experience

from this kind of use, in Swedish of course,

https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allm%C3%A4nhetens_bokscanner

Here is an example of a book that was scanned this way,

http://runeberg.org/nordmuseet/1897/0001.html

(Ironically, it is the annual report for 1897 of the museum

where it was scanned. They have the scanner standing in

their own library, but they have not scanned their own

reports.)

Are you familiar with anyting similar? Any other pages

that we should link to?