On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, at 06:35 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:

The problem for me is that librarians and other people who are genuinely interested in Wikisource and IA

don't understand why

* they upload a good scan on IA

* see a good book on IA, via the viewer

* get an horrible djvu on Wikisource.

This is the issue we should try to solve, otherwise we will lose a potential important ally, content and new userbase.

Aubrey

Definitely!

On a related note: most (all?) IA-scanned books have e.g. *_jp2.zip files containing all the original scan images, but is there any standard for user-uploaded books? Like your librarians above, I assume they're uploading individual jpg/png files? Do these get combined into a single zip? I'm thinking that they don't, and that ia-upload needs to provide the option of using any of the following sources:

• .djvu
  
• _jp2.zip (there's also _jpg.zip and _raw_jp2.zip, but I guess we don't need to use them?)
  
• *.jpg + *.jp2 + *.png (i.e. use all images in the item, apart from _cover_image.jpg)
  
• .pdf
  

Sound complete? Or are there other ways?

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