[Wikisource-l] Partnership with the French National Library

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Ouch, I haven't seen this when I was at Gdansk.

Seb35, 10/07/2010 21:42:
> I'm from the French chapter, Wikimédia France, and I want to annonce a  
> good news for Wikisource. Some months ago Wikimédia France signed a  
> partnership ("small" but significant in France) with the French National  
> Library (BnF) who gives to Wikisource 1400 texts with their OCR [1].

Great!

> Today these books arrived on Commons [2] and are ready to be checked by  
> the Wikisource community. The list is available on [3], the range of books  
> covers many century, different levels of confidence in the OCR and  
> different subjects, but most of them are in French.

How did you select them?
What will the BNF do with the proofread texts?
Can you share the agreement text (even if not translated and/or in some 
private wiki)?
Thank you,
	Nemo