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.
(...)

wow, nice!

Just for curiosity: these works are on what languages?