Hi,
Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local libraries.
I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option:
http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192
Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any recommendation?
Regards,
Carles
Hi Carles,
Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast (>500p/hour).
Pyb
[1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html
2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau carlesparedes@gmail.com:
Hi,
Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local libraries.
I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option:
http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192
Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any recommendation?
Regards,
Carles
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You'll certainly be interested on what Wikimedia Argentina is doing with DIY Book Scanners [1].
They tried to submit a Wikimania presentation, but the team behind it's organization simply refused the paper with no further details (sigh). At least, you can check some interesting infos both on [2] and [3].
I'm CC'ing Evelin. She is the person behind this successful approach.
Best, [[m:User:555]]
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[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2014-02#New_sca...
[2] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open_...
[3] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Open_hardware_and_...
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < pierre.beaudouin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Carles,
Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast (>500p/hour).
Pyb
[1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html
2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau carlesparedes@gmail.com:
Hi,
Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local libraries.
I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option:
http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192
Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any recommendation?
Regards,
Carles
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The is nice to see about scanner. It is inspired us. We are thinking about punche a scanner for our India Chapter.
Jayanta Nath President, Wikimedia India ws.bn.user:jayantanth
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Luiz Augusto lugusto@gmail.com wrote:
You'll certainly be interested on what Wikimedia Argentina is doing with DIY Book Scanners [1].
They tried to submit a Wikimania presentation, but the team behind it's organization simply refused the paper with no further details (sigh). At least, you can check some interesting infos both on [2] and [3].
I'm CC'ing Evelin. She is the person behind this successful approach.
Best, [[m:User:555]]
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2014-02#New_sca...
[2] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open_...
[3] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Open_hardware_and_...
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < pierre.beaudouin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Carles,
Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast (>500p/hour).
Pyb
[1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html
2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau carlesparedes@gmail.com :
Hi,
Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local libraries.
I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option:
http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192
Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any recommendation?
Regards,
Carles
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Hello everyone!
In Wikimedia Argentina we have been using these scanners (the ones that you're pointing at your e-mails) since 2012.
There are a lot of technical insights I can provide about this issue (both about what we have been doing and the scanners) if you want, but I'll like to make some comments on the future of this project.
Right now, in the DIY Book Scanner project we've come out with a new design: http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3063 , that has a lot of new features (it's able to scan bigger books, deals better with lighting, etc), but it's real novelty is that now it comes with a control system for the whole scanner, using a Raspberry Pi and a software called "Spreads": http://spreads.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ , that helps to control the cameras. We use Canon cameras with CHDK (Canon Hackers Development Kit) to do remote & synchronized shooting. Spreads it's a software written in Python.
Since in Wikimedia Argentina we have seven of these scanners (not all of them are operational, btw), what I would like to do is add them the 7 raspberry pi to use it with Spreads, BUT I would like to have someone writing some pieces of code to be able to "scan & upload": which means, to scan your book and be able to upload it automatically to wikimedia commons & wikisource, using the same control system, specially with no command line interface. The idea is also to have a Spreads server running by that time, probably to be installed in Wikimedia Argentina office. My idea is to write this project and present it for a IEG, so it could be really interesting if other chapters are interested in participate and want to join us in the development.
I know that Wikimedia Indonesia bought one of these scanners (and they're using it), CC Uruguay, that has a close relationship with Wikimedia Uruguay, also bought one of these, and now Wikimedia Brazil.
Well, that's pretty much it. I can answer any questions about the DIY Book scanners, and specially the way I see the project, GLAM and the wikimedia movement can interact.
Best, Scann
2014-09-07 0:26 GMT-03:00 Luiz Augusto lugusto@gmail.com:
You'll certainly be interested on what Wikimedia Argentina is doing with DIY Book Scanners [1].
They tried to submit a Wikimania presentation, but the team behind it's organization simply refused the paper with no further details (sigh). At least, you can check some interesting infos both on [2] and [3].
I'm CC'ing Evelin. She is the person behind this successful approach.
Best, [[m:User:555]]
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2014-02#New_sca...
[2] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open_...
[3] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Open_hardware_and_...
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin pierre.beaudouin@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Carles,
Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast (>500p/hour).
Pyb
[1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html
2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau carlesparedes@gmail.com:
Hi,
Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local libraries.
I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option:
http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192
Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any recommendation?
Regards,
Carles
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:59 AM, scann scannopolis@gmail.com wrote:
BUT I would like to have someone writing some pieces of code to be able to "scan & upload": which means, to scan your book and be able to upload it automatically to wikimedia commons & wikisource, using the same control system, specially with no command line interface.
Have you tried the Book Uploader Bot? It is a project created by Rohit (in CC) for his GSoC. http://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/index
It takes some available images from digital libraries, uploads them to Internet Archive (which converts to djvu and adds OCR), and then notify the user with a link to transfer the file to Commons when the file is ready.
If you want to use the same workflow for Spreads, you would need to add an option to BUB to upload an image batch and request the metadata from the user. It doesn't seem that hard considering that most of the work has been done.
Cheers, Micru
2014-09-09 12:01 GMT-03:00 David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com:
Have you tried the Book Uploader Bot? It is a project created by Rohit (in CC) for his GSoC. http://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/index
Wow, thank you! This seems like a tool that we could use for the project, definitely.
Do you know if it's possible to add Europeana as a Library? They also have a lot of interesting stuff that I think it would be worthed to upload to Commons.
Micru,
As a question re uploaded works to Commons. Are we labelling these in some way as needing to have Index: pages at the WSes, and by language of work? If not, then it would seem that we may need to do some curatorial work to can we identify .djvu files at Commons that are not linked to indices. Thinking about how we can make things easier for ourselves.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:01 AM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:59 AM, scann scannopolis@gmail.com wrote:
BUT I would like to have someone writing some pieces of code to be able to "scan & upload": which means, to scan your book and be able to upload it automatically to wikimedia commons & wikisource, using the same control system, specially with no command line interface.
Have you tried the Book Uploader Bot? It is a project created by Rohit (in CC) for his GSoC. http://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/index
It takes some available images from digital libraries, uploads them to Internet Archive (which converts to djvu and adds OCR), and then notify the user with a link to transfer the file to Commons when the file is ready.
If you want to use the same workflow for Spreads, you would need to add an option to BUB to upload an image batch and request the metadata from the user. It doesn't seem that hard considering that most of the work has been done.
Cheers, Micru
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Hi Billinghurst at ca-ws a user has been doing some tests to create automatically the missing Index: pages with a bot http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Especial:Contribucions/Anskarbot
I don't know exactly how it works, or if it is stable enough, but I will ask.
Regards, Micru
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Wiki Billinghurst < billinghurstwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Micru,
As a question re uploaded works to Commons. Are we labelling these in some way as needing to have Index: pages at the WSes, and by language of work? If not, then it would seem that we may need to do some curatorial work to can we identify .djvu files at Commons that are not linked to indices. Thinking about how we can make things easier for ourselves.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:01 AM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:59 AM, scann scannopolis@gmail.com wrote:
BUT I would like to have someone writing some pieces of code to be able to "scan & upload": which means, to scan your book and be able to upload it automatically to wikimedia commons & wikisource, using the same control system, specially with no command line interface.
Have you tried the Book Uploader Bot? It is a project created by Rohit (in CC) for his GSoC. http://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/index
It takes some available images from digital libraries, uploads them to Internet Archive (which converts to djvu and adds OCR), and then notify the user with a link to transfer the file to Commons when the file is ready.
If you want to use the same workflow for Spreads, you would need to add an option to BUB to upload an image batch and request the metadata from the user. It doesn't seem that hard considering that most of the work has been done.
Cheers, Micru
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