[Commons-l] Digitisation equipment

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK board meeting about potentially
> buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate content
> for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked my
> interest.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you
> recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is?
>
> Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this?

This came up on the Australian Wikimedia list.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaau-l/2009-August/002606.html

I think it is terribly inefficient for Wikimedians to start mass
scanning projects while we have so few people engaging in
transcription projects.  Libraries have scanned millions of books, and
there is no signs that they are going to stop.  Commons and Wikisource
should be mining and transcribing these books which are already
scanned.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaau-l/2009-August/002611.html

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John Vandenberg