I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to
share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions
or for internal use of Wikimedia communities.
Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner (
http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/)
in March 2015. We wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM
network, to help them to free resources and scan documents previously
not avaliable for general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime
Museum of Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the
past and with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working
there as professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the
project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues.
You can check the books scanned in the following link:
https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586.
It was an interesting project with relevant results. However, we
decided to discontinue it because it needed a close assistant we could
no longer offer and people from the museum weren't comfortable working
with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the
past.
That's why we want to offer the scanner to other
Wikisource communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to
continue digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having
a The Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss
how to handle it.
Thanks in advanced.