On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Aarti K. Dwivedi <ellydwivedi2093(a)gmail.com
wrote:
If I am not wrong, as of today, most books that were
born digital, are
still under copyright. Of course, they are available freely on the
internet. But we can't use the pirated copies. How would we go about the
procurement of these books?
If we procure these copyrighted books, then the only we would have to do
is to check for proper formatting. Isn't it?
You are thinking of *books*, which are not the only documents Wikisource
can host.
For example, I am thinking about Open Access literature, which counts in
hundred thousands CC-BY licensed articles, for example.
Just look in DOAJ:
http://www.doaj.org/
One of the wikimedians most involved in Open Access - Wiki collaboration is
Daniel Mietchen (cc'ed).
He's working on a bot who could grab the XML/HTML of an online article,
format it in wikicode, and post it wherever he wants (maybe, Wikisources).
The bot is aming to download automatically all images within the articles,
and post them on Commons.
I personally think that this project is beyond awesomeness,
IF we manage to solve particular and specific issues (as converting
hyperlinks to other articles in wikilinks to those articles posted on
WIkisource...)
As I said before, I see Wikisource as a broad, international, connected,
hypertextual digital library,
which has a thing no other digital library in the world has: a dedicated
community[*].
It is my personal opinion, I know some people don't see it that way (like
Alex :-D)
Aubrey
[*] there is Project Gutenberg, but I would argue they are not a digital
library...