On Jan 21, 2008 2:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings.
Off and on for many months been working on a project to import a large collection of public domain historic scientific documents into Wikimedia's collection.
My standing plan has been to pre-organize and catalog the collection, then upload the document images as DJVU files (which are utterly tiny compared to tiffs or pdfs) to commons including a OCRed Text layer (for search and copy and paste).
I would then begin importing documents into Wikisource, starting with the OCR but eventually having a full marked up output. From there the documents could be extensively linked and referenced from the other Wikimedia projects.
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wow, nice!
Just for curiosity: these works are on what languages?