New subject: IA Upload fixes

4 Dec 2017

As published in 1914 it is PD in US.
Its copyright status in Gernany (published in Dresden) is probably unclear, so it should
not be uploaded to Commons.

It can be uploaded locally to oldwikisource and, likely, to some other wikis that
recognize US copyright status only.

Ankry

W dniu 2017-12-03 21:40:20 użytkownik mathieu stumpf guntz
&lt;psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org&gt; napisał:
No. I don't have a book I would like to try it in mind, and I guess it would be
pointless to import an random book on which I don't plane to work, wouldn't it?
Right I would have been interested to find works of Charlotte Pulvers, especially Elzasaj
Legendoj, but actually I'm not even completely sure the book is in public domain as I
didn't found her vital records.
Cheers
Le 03/12/2017 à 01:47, Sam Wilson a écrit :
I agree there might be some work to do at some future point when we're trying to
import mixed-media works into Wikisource, but I'm afraid for now the sole purpose of
ia-upload is to convert IA scans of books into DjVus. MP3s or any other non-text work
cannot be converted with this tool.

Have you tried using it? Did you notice any problems?

— Sam.

On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, at 06:03 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz wrote:
Le 29/11/2017 à 08:47, Sam Wilson a écrit :
* Attempts to use the tool on items that don't have DjVu, PDF, or JP2 Zip files will
now fail. I'm not sure what people who were attempting to make DjVus of MP3s were
thinking, but they'll get a nicer error message now.
Apart from the file format, which was under some patent issues until last year and should
be soon be available to Commons (if not yet), what would be the problem with uploading the
file to Commons? All the more, some books might have sound component. My daughter have a
whole library of that kind. She also have plenty of book with tactile data which often
make me wonder how we would integrate such a book in Wikisource, as I'm not aware of
any technology to render that kind of data linked to the material texture. Defining a file
format to store that kind of data would be surely the easy part, all the more when
"digital texture" is a topic already extensively covered in the literature for
3D rendering purpose.

Just sharing some thoughts…

I dare say I'm broken something along the way, so do keep an eye out for weirdnesses
and let me know. Thanks, sam. _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l
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