[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [Announce-l] Wikimédia France report for July - December 2010

[phoebe ayers]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Adrienne Alix <adrienne.alix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Chapters,
>
> Please find below the chapter report of Wikimédia France for July, August,
> September, October, November and December 2010.
>
> It is also available on Meta
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_France/2010-07-12>
>
> == Partnerships ==
>
> === French National Library - BnF ===
>
> After several years of talks, a partnership was concluded between Wikimédia
> France and the French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France).
> Signed in April 2010, it consisted of two parts. First, an experiment in
> collaborative proofreading taking place on Wikisource, with the donation of
> 1400 books in the public domain, including scans and OCR text (automatically
> generated during the digitization process and prone to many errors,
> especially with old texts). Second, the exploitation of the authority files
> of the Library on Wikimedia projects.
>
> A team of three chapter members undertook the technical work. Three board
> members oversaw their work, acting as a steering committee, and interfaced
> with the Library staff; one acted as a Library Science and Wikisource
> advisor. Their work consisted in an extensive study of the formats used by
> the BnF and on Wikisource, and in the design and creation of a production
> line for the material. This line had to be able to sustain the sheer load of
> 1400 books, and handled the analysis and processing of metadata, format
> conversions, smart trimming and cropping of the scans, and preparation of a
> deliverable for the final upload to Wikimedia Commons. Because of the number
> and size of books, the actual upload was requested to WMF system
> administrator Tim Starling and was done in July.
>
> After that, the team produced various documents, help pages, project reports
> for the chapter, and a progress report. This last document contains fairly
> advanced statistical analysis of the characteristics of the proofreaders
> body, and the work done, making use of mathematical tools to measure the
> amount of work accomplished during the proofreading process.
>
> See the the hub-page on Meta
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BnF_%E2%88%92_Wikim%C3%A9dia_France_cooperation_project>

This is so cool :) I have been talking about this project to various
library groups, so I look forward to reading the detailed report.

cheers,
phoebe