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