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_sc… [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(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

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 &lt;lugusto(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:

2014-09-09 12:01 GMT-03:00 David Cuenca &lt;dacuetu(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: 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.

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(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non