On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I think this might be interesting (if not directly useful) to Wikisourcians:

http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/digitalproduct1.html

A digital version of the Archimedes Palimpsest was released yesterday.

Thanks Brianna.

For context, these images hold the only copy of some of the works of Archimedes, and these images have been created by separating the original Archimedes text from the text which was written over the top of it in the 12th or 13th century.

http://www.thewalters.org/news_art_museum/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest

It has been put together into a Google Book, but there is no download link. http://books.google.com/books?id=_zX8OG3QoF4C

If we want to work on this, we need to convert these images into a djvu file.

Greek Wikisource has the Proofread Page extension set up and in working order, with a few pages of the Bible in place.

http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:The_New_Testament_in_the_original_Greek_...

They have written a nice document describing their filename conventions, which is necessary to understand in order to dig around in their image bank, and they already have TEI transcription files for most of the pages I have seen.

http://archimedespalimpsest.net/Documents/Internal/FileNamingConventions.htm... http://archimedespalimpsest.net/Data/162v-155r/162v-155r_Arch32v_TEI_Netz-Wi...

It's licensed under CC-BY. http://archimedespalimpsest.net/0_ReadMe.html#rights-and-conditions-of-use

Great. Images of 2000 year old writing being covered by a new copyright! :/

It appears as if researcher contributions can be licensed differently:

http://archimedespalimpsest.net/ResearchContrib/ArchimedesDiagrams/FloatingB... (non commercial)

-- John Vandenberg