On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Aarti K. Dwivedi <ellydwivedi2093@gmail.com> wrote:

If I am not wrong, as of today, most books that were born digital, are still under copyright. Of course, they are available freely on the

internet. But we can't use the pirated copies. How would we go about the procurement of these books?

If we procure these copyrighted books, then the only we would have to do is to check for proper formatting. Isn't it?

You are thinking of *books*, which are not the only documents Wikisource can host.

For example, I am thinking about Open Access literature, which counts in hundred thousands CC-BY licensed articles, for example.

Just look in DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org/

One of the wikimedians most involved in Open Access - Wiki collaboration is Daniel Mietchen (cc'ed).

He's working on a bot who could grab the XML/HTML of an online article, format it in wikicode, and post it wherever he wants (maybe, Wikisources).

The bot is aming to download automatically all images within the articles, and post them on Commons.

I personally think that this project is beyond awesomeness,

IF we manage to solve particular and specific issues (as converting hyperlinks to other articles in wikilinks to those articles posted on WIkisource...)

As I said before, I see Wikisource as a broad, international, connected, hypertextual digital library,

which has a thing no other digital library in the world has: a dedicated community[*].

It is my personal opinion, I know some people don't see it that way (like Alex :-D)

Aubrey

[*] there is Project Gutenberg, but I would argue they are not a digital library...