Scripto is an alternative to the ProofreadPage extension used
by Wikisource. It is based on Mediawiki but also on OpenLayers,
the software used to zoom and pan in OpenStreetMap.
The only website I have seen that uses Scripto is the U.K.
War Department papers, and in many ways it is more clumsy
than ProofreadPage. But there might be a few ideas that could
be worth picking up. Take a look.
The software is described at http://scripto.org/
As for reference installations, they mention
http://wardepartmentpapers.org/transcribe.php
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal
project that he's been working on for a long time:
http://www.unz.org/
It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which
hosted there, some externally.
Examples:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRevhttp://www.unz.org/Publication/Century
Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug
According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their
writings. A couple of examples of author pages:
http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHLhttp://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith
Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's
PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has
permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case,
there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I
haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a
research library for Wikipedians as well.
Cheers,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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