Regarding the 1908 Gray's anatomy, Magnus wrote:
Questions:
- Can we use these? AFAIK, scanning&OCR is not a copyrightable thing.
Yes, we should be fine with that.
- Should we use these? Wikified, of course, as I did. They'd cover
plenty of topics in the medical area, but may be a little old and heavy. OTOH, this is wikipedia; if you don't like the style, edit!
It's sort of a mixed blessing like the 1911 Britannica stuff, isn't it?
Perhaps it would be best to add them slowly, perhaps in an automated fashion, but maybe a few per day, so that we have time to absorb them. It should be pretty easy for people to go through and update them to a certain extent. And some of that information, perhaps the bulk of it, is going to be pretty valid even today.
--Jimbo