I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for internal use of Wikimedia communities.
Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner ( http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in March 2015. We wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM network, to help them to free resources and scan documents previously not avaliable for general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime Museum of Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the past and with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working there as professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues. You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586. It was an interesting project with relevant results. However, we decided to discontinue it because it needed a close assistant we could no longer offer and people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the past.
That's why we want to offer the scanner to other Wikisource communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to continue digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having a The Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss how to handle it.
Thanks in advanced.
Carles Paredes (KRLS) Amical Wikimedia
Thanks for this update on the DIY scanner projects.
Carles Paredes Lanau, 07/05/2017 20:18:
You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586
Only one? Or do you mean all the 89 items in https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb ?
people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the past.
Interesting. Is there a description, even on the DIY scanner forums, of what differences were most impactful for them?
Nemo
Wikimedia italia is interested :-)
Il 07/mag/2017 20:18, "Carles Paredes Lanau" carlesparedes@gmail.com ha scritto:
I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for internal use of Wikimedia communities.
Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner ( http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in March 2015. We wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM network, to help them to free resources and scan documents previously not avaliable for general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime Museum of Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the past and with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working there as professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues. You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586. It was an interesting project with relevant results. However, we decided to discontinue it because it needed a close assistant we could no longer offer and people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the past.
That's why we want to offer the scanner to other Wikisource communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to continue digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having a The Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss how to handle it.
Thanks in advanced.
Carles Paredes (KRLS) Amical Wikimedia
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Hi,
Thanks for the proposal but Wikimédia France already has one (is it the same ? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Book_scanners_of_Wikimedia_Franc... ) that is not often used (indeed it needs some tech skills and time).
I don't recall if Wikimedia CH already has one or is currently buying/building one (I know it was discuss). Yann: can you tell us?
Cdlt, ~nicolas
Hi Nicolas,
That's a Hackerspace scanner (Carles seems to have The Archivist one, which has some differences).
I'm part of the DIY Book Scanner project, so if you have any feedback over why the project didn't work, it would be more than interesting to hear it.
Maybe you also want to check out the new software that has been released to control the cameras: https://github.com/Tenrec-Builders/pi-scan
It works for more camertas than the Powershot IXUS160, it depends a lot of how the CHDK was build, but right now I know that there are some other projects that has tested the PiScan with other models of cameras and it works pretty well. Using PiScan in combination with the MarkersCrop: https://github.com/Tenrec-Builders/marker-crop makes a lot of the workflow easier.
I'm also more than happy to provide some help on how to make a decent software workflow for the BS. I know this tends to be a major bottleneck (specially if you are using Linux and the library is used to work with Windows), but it can be sorted it out.
Best, Scann
2017-05-08 9:50 GMT-03:00 Nicolas VIGNERON vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com:
Hi,
Thanks for the proposal but Wikimédia France already has one (is it the same ? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Book_scanners_ of_Wikimedia_France ) that is not often used (indeed it needs some tech skills and time).
I don't recall if Wikimedia CH already has one or is currently buying/building one (I know it was discuss). Yann: can you tell us?
Cdlt, ~nicolas
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Wikimedia Australia (the western branch of it anyway) is about to start a three-month residency at the State Library of Western Australia, and we've got an office (which I'll be working from pretty much full time). If it's a success, perhaps in a few months' time I'd love to be able to put my hand up for WMAU to be custodians of a book scanner! But probably postage to Australia would be too much. :-)
—Sam
On Mon, 8 May 2017, at 02:18 AM, Carles Paredes Lanau wrote:
I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for internal use of Wikimedia communities.> Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner (http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in March 2015. We wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM network, to help them to free resources and scan documents previously not avaliable for general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime Museum of Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the past and with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working there as professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues. You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586. It was an interesting project with relevant results. However, we decided to discontinue it because it needed a close assistant we could no longer offer and people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the past.> That's why we want to offer the scanner to other Wikisource communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to continue digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having a The Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss how to handle it.> Thanks in advanced.
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