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

[Pavlo Shevelo]

> The training is typically an apprenticeship under the senior...

To my regret training/apprenticeship does not fit to "everyone
can...", "be bold!" set of wikimedia slogans/motto.
As to me I would stand behind (vote for) training and apprenticeship.


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:23 AM, David Goodman<dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> The training is typically an apprenticeship under the senior
> cataloging librarians.
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> DGG, I appreciate your points.  Would we be so motivated by this
>> thread if it weren't a complex problem?
>>
>> The fact that all of this is quite new, and that there are so many
>> unknowns and gray areas, actually makes me consider it more likely
>> that a body of wikimedians, experienced with their own form of
>> large-scale authority file coordination, are in a position to say
>> something meaningful about how to achieve something similar for tens
>> of millions of metadata records.
>>
>>> OL rather than Wikimedia has the advantage that more of the people
>>> there understand the problems.
>>
>> In some areas that is certainly so.  In others, Wikimedia communities
>> have useful recent experience.  I hope that those who understand these
>> problems  on both sides recognize the importance of sharing what they
>> know openly -- and  showing others how to understand them as well.  We
>> will not succeed as a global community if we say that this class of
>> problems can only be solved by the limited group of people with an MLS
>> and a few years of focused training.  (how would you name the sort of
>> training you mean here, btw?)
>>
>> SJ
>>
>>