Wikimedia Australia (the western branch of it anyway) is about to start
a three-month residency at the State Library of Western Australia, and
we've got an office (which I'll be working from pretty much full time).
If it's a success, perhaps in a few months' time I'd love to be able to
put my hand up for WMAU to be custodians of a book scanner!
But probably postage to Australia would be too much. :-)
—Sam
On Mon, 8 May 2017, at 02:18 AM, Carles Paredes Lanau wrote:
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.
Carles Paredes (KRLS)
Amical Wikimedia
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