There are many difficulties I see with Scripto as an alternative to Proofread Page: 1) all metadata about e.g. the order of pages within a book lives within the CMS scripto is connected to. This means that features like PediaPress won't work, as they can't navigate from page 2 to page 3. 2) the actual images live on the connected CMS -- in fact the CMS is the whole interface to the wiki.
I imagine that the Scripto folks would be happy to weigh in, though. (They're great people -- post on their dev list and see if they'll comment.)
If wikisource were to look at an alternative to ProofRead Page, I suspect that the Bentham Transcription Desk might be a more appropriate, pure-MediaWiki alternative.
Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:00 AM, wikisource-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:
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- Re: Scripto, free software for transcribing documents (Andrea Zanni)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:37:35 +0200 From: Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Scripto, free software for transcribing documents Message-ID: <CAC=VxyYskMeLDgDNZ9hp255B2JWYkoZ-= Ta2D0Kq2OSa9bHmbA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I wantet to rejoice this old mail from Lars:
Scripto is an alternative to the ProofreadPage extension used by Wikisource. It is based on Mediawiki but also on OpenLayers, the software used to zoom and pan in OpenStreetMap.
The only website I have seen that uses Scripto is the U.K. War Department papers, and in many ways it is more clumsy than ProofreadPage. But there might be a few ideas that could be worth picking up. Take a look.
The software is described at http://scripto.org/
As for reference installations, they mention http://wardepartmentpapers.org/transcribe.php
Does anyone know this software? Could we be interested?
Aubrey
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Scripto is an alternative to the ProofreadPage extension used by Wikisource. It is based on Mediawiki but also on OpenLayers, the software used to zoom and pan in OpenStreetMap.
The only website I have seen that uses Scripto is the U.K. War Department papers, and in many ways it is more clumsy than ProofreadPage. But there might be a few ideas that could be worth picking up. Take a look.
The software is described at http://scripto.org/
As for reference installations, they mention http://wardepartmentpapers.org/transcribe.php
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Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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