[Foundation-l] Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica on Wikimedia
Brian
brian0918 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 02:11:06 UTC 2005
For those who don't know, the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is a famous
public domain encyclopedia, advertised as the "sum of all human
knowledge" in 1911.
I recently (today) acquired a DVD containing scans of every page of the
1911 Britannica, along with index files for it all, organized by letter
and page number. I've already talked with avar, TimStarling, and brion
on IRC, and TimStarling specifically asked me to tell you all that he is
"confident that the server requirements will be minimal." They would set
up a domain name, generate some web pages automatically using the index
files, and host the entire set of 29,700 files totaling about 4 GB.
One more thing, these are black and white TIFs, and there is discussion
about whether they should be mass converted to PNGs to be easily viewable.
brian0918 at gmail.com
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