Dear Wikimedians,
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. Few other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension. This post is just to share the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities.
Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar.
Shiju Alex
Thanks a lot shiju,
will definitely look into this.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. Few other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension. This post is just to share the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities.
Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar.
Shiju Alex
Wikipedia-gu mailing list Wikipedia-gu@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
Thanks Shiju,
Now when we are very active on wikisource, this will help us.
Regards, Dhaval
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. Few other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension. This post is just to share the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities.
Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar.
Shiju Alex
Wikipedia-gu mailing list Wikipedia-gu@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
Dear Shiju, Susantbhai.
"When we are able to store the books in its graphic format say DjVu format. what is the need to type it? why not let it be as it is, the reader will read it in its graphic format."
Thanks for this Q&A. Yes, this will help us.
On 3/25/12, Dhaval S. Vyas dsvyas@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Shiju,
Now when we are very active on wikisource, this will help us.
Regards, Dhaval
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. Few other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension. This post is just to share the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities.
Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar.
Shiju Alex
Wikipedia-gu mailing list Wikipedia-gu@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
"When we are able to store the books in its graphic format say DjVu format. what is the need to type it? why not let it be as it is, the reader will read it in its graphic format."
I thought I already replied for this. Sorry if I don't.
This is the essence of our work. We need *searchable* and *reusable* text. That is not possible with Graphic text. There are many other advantages. For example, see how Malayalam community released and offline version (CD) of Wikisource articles last year. Searchable and reusable text are most important.
Due to the lack of good FOSS tools, the OCR facility for Indic language is still an issue. When OCR facility comes our current manual work will go away. Then digitization will be easier.
Shiju
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ashok Modhvadia ashokmodhvadia@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Shiju, Susantbhai.
"When we are able to store the books in its graphic format say DjVu format. what is the need to type it? why not let it be as it is, the reader will read it in its graphic format."
Thanks for this Q&A. Yes, this will help us.
On 3/25/12, Dhaval S. Vyas dsvyas@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Shiju,
Now when we are very active on wikisource, this will help us.
Regards, Dhaval
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension).
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using
this
method extensively to digitize the books. Few other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension. This post is just to share
the
best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities.
Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar.
Shiju Alex
Wikipedia-gu mailing list Wikipedia-gu@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
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