Hey everybody,
On 04-Aug-2012, at 5:41 PM, Birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com wrote:
I am cataloguing the non-WM contacts I made at
Wikimania. Reading up on them, basically making the time I didn't have during the
conference to understand who they are. The BHL had three librarians at the conference, I
remember that they were very interested in a solution for getting OCR corrections back
into djvu files. They mentioned Wikisource in the blog post they made about the
conference. I thought the list might be interested in what they had to say.
http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/07/wikimania-2012.html I'm currently
working with the BHL on a two-month, unrelated metadata project, part of which is making
sure that BHL's illustration metadata can be easily synced with content in the Commons
(see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information_Art_of_Life for more details).
So I don't know anything about BHL's plans for Wikisource, but let me know if I
can help!
Personally, I'd love to see more (annotated!) biodiversity texts in Wikisource, such
as
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Salticidae_(Spiders)_of_Panama/Zygoballus -- these
species descriptions are the formal definition of a new species, and the BHL has been a
huge help in making these definitions available, online and for free, to taxonomists
everywhere (to say nothing of tons of gorgeous illustrations! [1]). However, their
transcription and indexing are largely automated, via OCR and text matching. Moving these
essential resources into Wikisource, where transcriptions and indexing could be improved
by hand, would be awesome!
cheers,
Gaurav
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Gaurav
[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library