[Foundation-l] Black market science

[Andrea Zanni]

2011/7/7 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>

> 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)
>

I know - in fact, it was exactly what I wanted to explain :-)
I think this system is perfect for digitized documents, aka paper documents
which has been scanned and need transcription.

MVHO is that the same system is redundant for born-digital documents.
If we use the Proofread Extension (that's how it's called), you need to
re-transcribe the whole text, or at least have it formatted. Then you
transclude the text in ns0.
The text is reliable, but it is a lot of work, and lot of it is just
redundant (why write by hand something tha has just benn written in a good
pdf?).

If we use the simple ns0 (many wikisources are not so sctrict as de.source
in this regard) you need to do the same (transform in wikitext, format). So
the issues remain.

Now, I was wondering if we can find another (technical? organizational?
political?)solution for born-digital documents, as pdf, scientific articles
etc.

Aubrey