Hi Daniel,
I think it's a great idea, a serious step for the integration of the Open Access world with the Wikimedia one. Being born-digital content, I would support all kinds of "bot-hash" validation, maybe a "human" one is needed just for formatting or templates. 
Looking forward to see these things come true :-)

Aubrey




On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

today, we posted a proposal to the English Wikisource about automated
import of Open-Access articles:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Automated_import_of_openly_licensed_scholarly_articles

In parallel, I uploaded an important zoological work (the first
monograph to use Linnean taxonomy for animals; written in Swedish and
accompanied by a Latin translation) to Wikimedia Commons and posted
about this at the Swedish and Latin Wikisources:
https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:M%C3%B6tesplatsen#Svenska_spindlar
https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Vicifons:Scriptorium#Aranei_Svecici .

In both cases, the aim is to bring more scholarly content onto
Wikisource, and the idea is to scale things up if that works well.

Feedback of any kind is most welcome.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel


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