Dear all,
registration <http://goo.gl/forms/K5SFPHNkWP>for the international
Wikisource Conference in Vienna is now open until *October 13, 2015*. As
our PEG proposal was successful, we will be able to offer some
scholarships to increase diversity among participants in terms of
language and geography.
The registration process also entails the scholarship application for
those participants who are not funded by a Wikimedia affiliate or other
organization. We encourage especially visa applicants to register and
get in touch with the team from WMAT soon.
We are looking forward to seeing some of you in Vienna soon!
Claudia, Andrea and David
--
Claudia Garád
Executive Director
Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Siebensterngasse 25/15
1070 Wien
0699 141 28615
www.wikimedia.at <http://www.wikimedia.at/>
I'm finding this document quite useful:
http://www.succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/Succeed_6005…
See description of ALTO pasted below, which is a followup to
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikisource-l/2014-September/002081.ht…
. We should find a way to convert the transcribed books' HTML to ALTO
format. :)
Some libraries are apparently using
http://www.primaresearch.org/tools/Aletheia which seems an augmented
(but unfree?!) version of ScanTailor with some different purpose.
Nemo
Principles
ALTO stores layout information and OCR recognized text of pages of any
kind of printed
documents like books, journals and newspapers. ALTO can detail technical
metadata for
describing the layout and content of physical resources (text,
illustrations, graphics).
ALTO describes a content page with different views:
The Description section helps to describe some general settings and
information
of the ALTO file (measurement units, file name, etc.), and the
production process
itself (processing steps, software used, dates and actors, etc.)
The Layout section contains what‟s on the page. A page is divided into
several
regions (print space; left, right, top and bottom margins). For each
region, all
objects are listed which have been detected inside: text blocks,
illustrations,
graphical elements, composed blocks. Each object previously identified
is defined
by generic attributes: width, height, text content (for the String element).
Besides, the reading order of all the elements can be managed.
Each ALTO file may also contain a style section where different styles (for
paragraphs and fonts) are listed.
Use cases
ALTO is one of the most common formats used by libraries for converting
text from
images. It‟s used both to deliver digitized contents and to preserve
these contents.
In a delivery perspective, the ability of ALTO to store the text content
coordinates in a
page allows the overlay of image and text (multilayer PDF) and highlight
search words
in a query.
Dear all,
thanks to Wikimedia Österreich we are organizing the first international
Wikisource Conference, which will be held in Wien, Austria, from November
20 till 22, this year.
We are finalizing the application for a WMF grant, and would like to
receive some feedbacks:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WCUG/Wikisource_Conference_2015
Hopefully, everything will go for the better and we will receive the money.
>From there, a lot of work have to be done!
Here there is the page for the conference on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_…
It's up to *you* to come up with a program for the conference :-)
Seriously: it's important that this will be a community event, and
community curated too.
We will have many things to discuss, and we hope it will be great event.
And yes: if everything goes as expected, there will be scholarships, but
it's crucial that we involve our Chapters.
More on this soon.
Spend some time in the weekend to give us some honest feedback!
I hope you are excited about this as we are.
Thanks
Andrea, David, Claudia
Hello Nicolas, Hello all...
Sure, I would be available to talk about the wonderful association we got
with BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec / Québec Library &
National archives) and how this partenership is doing great (doing so great
that BAnQ offered Wikimedia Canada a free office within one of the National
archives building for the next 10 years!!!)
Ernest Boucher, Wikimédia Canada (ca.wikimedia.org)
Wikisource: Projet Québec Canada (jecontribue.ca)
Hi All,
Are ther any bot or utility/tool for Muiple page move to subpage with a fix
Title/Subpage.
For Example, We have pages like, A,B,C,D....., We need to move each pages
to Title/A,Title/B,Title/C,Title/D,.....
Regards,
Jayanta
BNWS
I've been having trouble visiting Wikisource sites in both Firefox and Chrome since yesterday. On the Italian Wikisource I manage to open the main page and follow the link to the Scriptorium, but I cannot go any farther because pages do not load. I cannot access the English Wikisource at all; I type the URL and press Enter, but it refuses to load. On the multilingual Wikisource I opened the main page and logged in, but then I could not go any farther. However, the French Wikisource works just fine. Everything seems to be fine with Internet Explorer 8, which is the latest version
I can have on my old XP-run PC.
Has anyone experienced similar problems?
I had already noticed something weird a few days ago, as my username (and the set of links that accompany it) appeared on Wikisource sites but not on Wikipedias.
Erasmo Barresi