On 07/07/11 12:00 AM, Ting Chen wrote:
On de.wikisource.org they scan every page of the original text, upload the scan on Commons and show the scan on the right part of every page as an image. It is even obligatory to have the original scan of the text.
The following page is an example: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:Oberamt_Tettnang_231.jpg (I just hit the random page)
This is, of course, excessive. On the one hand it is a continuing virtue to have reliable proofread texts, but it should be sufficient to be able to link to such a text somewhere without necessarily including a copy. Whether one, two or three people have verified a text can indeed be shown in the metadata, and that becomes a basis for a user to judge reliability. Imposing stringent requirements will also discourage having other editions of the same work.
The one place where we can provide the greatest value-added is in linking the material in ways that it will become useful.
Ray