[Wikisource-l] [Commons-l] Image donations?

[Birgitte SB]

It would be very exciting to get our hands on uncommon
materials such as the Libary of Congress must have. 
However I am confused about your proposal about "A
commons-project to create form requests and a queue
for processing inbound content would be useful."  
What do you dislike about the current methods being
used to put scanned images on Commons and attaching
these to the OCR text at Wikisoure?  I personally have
never used these scripts myself, but judging from the
results alone I am not sure how it would be improved
on.  Looking at the histories of the pages it seems to
work rather quickly as well.  It would be very useful
if you could give us details about what problems you
see with the current system, before wwe start talking
of a new set-up. 

As to educational materials for Wikibooks Wikisource
does contain a lot of things which would be useful as
a base for updated textbooks.  I do not know what
anyone at Wikibooks is particularly interested in, but
there is some room for collaboration.  Especially with
the WikiJunior people IMHO.  If anyone at those
projects is interested in what we have email me I will
gather a list for you of what I think might useful. 
Sometime in the future I think it would be great if
WikiJunior expanded into having a set of purely
literary books available.  Although it would not be
actually adding new content to the world (except in
translation perhaps), putting them together would
require very little effort.   Finding free content
illustrations would probably be the most work of
anything.


Birgitte SB

--- SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Museums are good repositories of such information;
> also non-digitized
> archives.  For them digitization is an expense; if
> we can reliably
> offer this for free, many will be glad to release
> copyright in
> exchange for more usable access to their own
> materials.
> 
> The Library of Congress has a sizable collection of
> materials that
> they want to distribute more broadly; it is indeed
> already PD or
> equivalent, but not digitized -- or more commonly,
> digitized somehow
> but not in many formats, not classified, not easily
> available.
> 
> A commons-project to create form requests and a
> queue for processing
> inbound content would be useful.
> 
> You could say the same about archived books that
> have no commercial
> value anymore.  The same analysis goes for
> processing book materials
> donated to wikisource; which requires image
> processing and OCR and
> should perhaps have a commons aspect (raw page
> images, raw ocr output
> files, images from within the book extracted from
> the raw page
> images), and a wikisource text aspect (text
> transcript, translations).
>  And again ties to the book industry would be useful
> here.
> 
> Finally, source texts that are educationally useful
> could generate a
> third set of materials : living wikibooks built on
> their foundation,
> updated and improved over time.
> 
> SJ
> <copynig all 3 project lists>
> 
> On 6/15/06, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at web.de>
> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there is some kind of organized
> effort to ask
> > photographers and image agencies for donations
> (read: GFDL- or
> > CC-licensing) of images.
> >
> > I am thinking especially of images that we cannot
> take ourselves; dead
> > celebrities for example (and no, don't go
> grave-digging ;-)
> >
> > There must be a huge amount of photos that have
> next no no commercial
> > value anymore, because they are not good enough
> for a magazine cover,
> > but would do well for documenting an encyclopedia
> article. Of course, we
> > would prominently credit the source in the image
> description (which will
> > be transcluded to every wikipedia that uses it),
> or even in the image
> > title. Images could be watermarked, of course, and
> for largeer amounts
> > of photos, we'd create a category, gallery and
> all. Repeaded mentioning
> > (in a good light!) in a project of the wikimedia
> magnitude might be
> > worth more than paid advertisement, fo virtually
> no cost.
> >
> > We could even offer a service: I'm sure some of us
> have
> > (semi-)professional film scanners (I do). Deal
> goes like this: mail us
> > your films (encyclopedia/commons-style only; not
> your family picknick;-)
> > and a note that releases them under
> GFDL/CC/PD/whatever, and we'll
> > upload them in high-res on commons, where you can
> download them. Free
> > film digitization!
> >
> >
> > With people on commons obviously interested in
> media, there must be some
> > of us with ties to "the industry" who can initiate
> such contacts. "The
> > Yorck Project" already donated a lot of PD images,
> as you might
> > remember. If we can get just a few
> photographers/companies to release
> > images as well, others might follow just to not
> lag behind.
> >
> >
> > Magnus
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> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> ++SJ
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