Hello Aubrey,
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Aubrey zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
The issue of metadata is nontheless serious, because it's one of the most important flaws of Wikisource: not applying standards (i.e Dublin Core) and not having a proper tools for export/import and harvest metadata
Both good points. Are there proposals on wikisource to address these two points in a way that's friendly to wikisource contributors?
I want us to get better, faster, less held up by the idea of coordinating with other projects, because there are much larger projects out there worthy of coordinating with. The annotators who work on the Perseus Project come to mind... but that's truly a harder problem than this one.
The Perseus project is an *amazing* project, but I regard them far more ahead than us. The PP is actually a Virtual Research Environment, with tools for scholars and researcher for studying texts, (concordances and similar stuff).
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I would love to have PP people involved in collaboration with Wikisource, just don't know if this is possible.
Yes, PP is ahead of us in some ways. But in other ways they have run into bottleneck and multilingual issues that a wiki environment can resolve.
I believe that Prof. Greg Crane of the Perseus Project (cc:ed here) is interested in starting to collaborate with Wikisource, even while pursuing ideas about developing a larger framework for wiki-style annotations and editions.
While it may be hard in the short term, in the long term that's what I think we all want wikisource to become.
It is interesting because a project similar to PGDP (it is Italian and started in 1993, emulating the glorious PG, just with Italian texts) is, right now, moving to a wiki. Although the scale is way smaller, Wikipedia and Wikisource showed them a system which tends to eliminate bottlenecks, and for them this is becoming crucial.
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Luckily, the relationships with the Italian Wikisource are really good, and they'll probably share an office with Wikimedia Italy, in October. The interesting fact is that the offices will be within a library ;-), so I really expect a collaboration there.
Wow. This is all great to hear -- can you include a link to the project? I'd like to blog about it.
Warmly, SJ