[Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

[Anthony]

Evil I tell you.  Evil!

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Anthony wrote:
> > Wow, what's Wikipedia's policy about using a bot to scrape everything?
> >
>
> I don't know about any policy, but I think it should still be
> discouraged.  For me this has less to do with predation on other sites
> than with our inability to keep up with the volume of data that would be
> produced.  Proofreading and wikifying are labour-intensive processes.
> It is very easy for the technically minded to bring the scan and OCR of
> a 500-page book under our roof, but without the manpower to bring the
> added value these processes are scarcely better than data dumps.
>
> Ec
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> That is against the law. It violates Google's ToS.
> >>
> >> I'm mostly complaining that Google is being Very Evil. There is nothing
> we
> >> can do about it except complain to them. Which I don't know how to do -
> >> they
> >> apparently believe that the plain text versions of their books are akin
> to
> >> their intellectual property and are unwilling to give them away.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Falcorian wrote:
> >>
> >>> So the bot just has to run at human speeds so it does not get banned,
> it
> >>> still won't get tired or make unpredictable mistakes. And you can run
> it
> >>> from different IPs to parallelize.
> >>>
> >>> --Falcorian
>
>
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