On 5/28/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I've done a small interview with the founder of LibriVox, a project to create spoken audio versions of public domain texts: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Interview_with_LibriVox_founder_Hugh_McGuire

It sounds like they would be a natural partner for Wikisource to collaborate.

Erik

This is a great site. I've been slowly working with them--well, not *with* them, but with their audio files to turn them into something more apt for Wikisource (splitting multi-chapter audio files into a chapter per file, splitting up the very large chapters, etc.). Birgitte pointed this project out to us a little while ago, and I've been using it ever since.

They've got spoken works in multiple languages (aside from English, I believe German is the next most common language) which really add a nice touch to the works hosted on Wikisource. For any interested WS contributors, I highly suggest a visit to this site. Their contents might give a boost to what Wikisource already has, especially where one of our biggest concerns is what we can supplement our works with and how we can differentiate ourselves from such giants like Gutenberg; this is one good method of doing that.

I can't say that I work with them, although some kind of informal "partnership" would be nice (I wouldn't even know the first place to begin with doing something like this--but I couldn't see how it would hurt Wikisource to get in touch with them). After all, we do share similar visions and have similar goals, so some kind of collaboration might really help both of us out.

Z