Hi everyone,
This may be of interest to the Wikisource project.
On a search for "metcalfe", six results came back, including
references to the American "metcalf". Here is one as an image:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:757000/display.html?n=2&scop…
They also provide the OCR'd text:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ocrData.html?pagePid=ndnp:757000&…
There are also about six that mention Mark Twain; I have uploaded one:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_San_Francisco_Call/Mark_Twain_Called_by_D…
--
John
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From: Skander - <shinywater(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2007 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] National Digital Newspaper
Program beta
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Awesome. Perhaps we even could adopt a WikiProject for this.
-Salaskan
2007/6/20, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
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From: Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov(a)yahoo.com>
Date: 19-Jun-2007 19:48
Subject: [Foundation-l] National Digital Newspaper Program beta
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
All,
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for
the Humanities have announced the beta web interface
for the National Digital Newspaper Program, intended
to digitize and make freely available the contents of
most historic major U.S. newspapers:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html
Currently only the contents of newspapers from a
select few states during the period 1900-1910 are
available, but eventually the project will encompass
all U.S. regions and the entire period 1836 to 1922.
The Library of Congress does not seem to place any
legal restrictions on the use of these archives for
educational purposes (though it does not guarantee
that other copyright holders might not have claims)
and I think even the current, limited contents of the
archive will be immediately valuable for reference and
illustrative purposes within Wikipedia.