[[User:Unforgettableid]] wrote:
On 9/22/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/09/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/21/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It'll come, it'll come. Dumping everything onto disk scans in the first instance. Just under two years doubling time. You won't be *able* to buy a disk smaller than a petabyte in twenty years.
Who is going to do the physical scanning?
Some dedicated fools, I expect.
A while back I heard how Amazon.com scans entire books.
- Some books are scanned in North America using, IIRC (foggy memory),
a homemade page-turning apparatus that somehow works together with a scanner. It is fully automatic.
- Some books are scanned in India. It is cheap to hire manual workers
there, so they hire people to run the scanners.
It seems that most of the Wikimedia Foundation's budget goes towards buying hardware, but I wonder if it'd be practical for us to hire people to do either of these things.
We would still need the hardware. Then there's the delicate question of who decides exactly what this employee would scan.
Ec