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

[David Goodman]

Exactly. That is why Wikipedia is an inappropriate place for this
project. It lacks sufficient stability. I think Wikipedia should go on
being what it is, an almost completely open place,and projects which
need disciplined long term expertise should be organized separately.
Wikipedia is a wonderful place to do many things, but not all.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Pavlo Shevelo<pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>
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