[Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

Nemo_bis nemowiki at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 06:16:53 UTC 2009


Samuel Klein, 11/08/2009 07:00:
> Let's take a practical example.  A classics professor I know (Greg
> Crane, copied here) has scans of primary source materials, some with
> approximate or hand-polished OCR, waiting to be uploaded and converted
> into a useful online resource for editors, translators, and
> classicists around the world.
> 
> Where should he and his students post that material?

Slovene Wikisource did something similar: 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Slovene_student_projects_in_Wikipedia_and_Wikisource#Wikisource

Nemo



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