[Foundation-l] Black market science

[Andrea Zanni]

2011/7/12 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
> Andrea,  I hear you suggesting that we need a different upload process
> for pdfs and other documents, wherein when you upload them there is a
> "digital document to paged wikitext" script that runs and generates an
> appropriate result, which can then be imported elsewhere on the
> projects as needed.

Yes, something like this.
I mean, if we want, as Wikisource, to start collecting born-digital
text we should think something that does the bulk work.


>> My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the amount
>> of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a
>> difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional
>> repository (5 minutes of their time, even less), how can we wikilibrarians
>> think that they will come to us and upload and "curate" their text?
>
> Right - these should be doable by different people.  An ambassador to
> an institutional repository should be able to collect approving
> signatures and do a bulk upload him/herself.

Yep.
We should discover if signature should be needed: maybe, we could even
download them without telling anyone,
if they use compatible licenses (CC-BY, CC-BY-SA: I'm not sure about
Berlin decalration and such).

And if Wikisource (or Commons) would have an OAI-PMH extension,
we could directly harvest from repositories, on a montlhy basis.
(but as we all know this point still needs much work) :-)

Aubrey

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