[Foundation-l] Black market science

[Ting Chen]

On de.wikisource.org they scan every page of the original text, upload 
the scan on Commons and show the scan on the right part of every page as 
an image. It is even obligatory to have the original scan of the text.

The following page is an example: 
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:Oberamt_Tettnang_231.jpg (I just hit 
the random page)

Greetings
Ting


Am 07.07.2011 07:57, schrieb Andrea Zanni:
> 2011/7/6 David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>
>
>> On 6 July 2011 21:29, Arlen Beiler<arlenbee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Once it is published, can't it just go to Wikisource? Or would it have to
>> be
>>> CC-By or something like that. If so, Wikisource would still be the best
>>> suited for that, we would just have to put it in a journal namespace or
>>> something along that line.
> As I see it, there are some technical/organizational issues.
> Wikisource accepts CC-BY-SA/CC-BY texts (and often OA articles use these
> licenses), but does not change the text it self, only maybe in terms of
> format and layout. It's a policy of the project to be absolutely coherent
> with the source. This solves the issue of modifying the article itslef, and
> having it in the exact words of the author.
>
> But the current architecture is designed for digitization of paper books: as
> I see it, we lack a simple, easy way to upload and show born digital
> documents, as scientific articles would be.
> I mean, we can always (and sometimes we do) ri-shape articles in wikitext
> and put them in the ns0 of Wikisource,
> or event upload the article on Commons and re-transcribe the text with the
> pdf as a scan, but you see this is reinventing the wheel, everytime.
> I still don't know how could we do, but I feel that we should have a more
> automatic way to upload this kind of content (and then giving it our added
> value, as wikilinks etc.) (for example, we could accept latex as it is...)
>
> Aubrey
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