Hello Aubrey, On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Aubrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> The issue of metadata is nontheless serious, because it's one of the most > important flaws of Wikisource: not applying standards (i.e Dublin Core) and > not > having a proper tools for export/import and harvest metadata Both good points. Are there proposals on wikisource to address these two points in a way that's friendly to wikisource contributors? >> I want us to get better, faster, less held up by the idea of >> coordinating with other projects, because there are much larger >> projects out there worthy of coordinating with. The annotators who >> work on the Perseus Project come to mind... but that's truly a harder >> problem than this one. > > The Perseus project is an *amazing* project, but I regard them far more ahead > than us. The PP is actually a Virtual Research Environment, with tools for > scholars and researcher for studying texts, (concordances and similar stuff). < > I would love to have PP people involved in collaboration with Wikisource, just > don't know if this is possible. Yes, PP is ahead of us in some ways. But in other ways they have run into bottleneck and multilingual issues that a wiki environment can resolve. I believe that Prof. Greg Crane of the Perseus Project (cc:ed here) is interested in starting to collaborate with Wikisource, even while pursuing ideas about developing a larger framework for wiki-style annotations and editions. While it may be hard in the short term, in the long term that's what I think we all want wikisource to become. > It is interesting because a project similar to PGDP (it is Italian and started > in 1993, emulating the glorious PG, just with Italian texts) is, right now, > moving to a wiki. Although the scale is way smaller, Wikipedia and Wikisource > showed them a system which tends to eliminate bottlenecks, and for them this > is > becoming crucial. < > Luckily, the relationships with the Italian Wikisource are really good, and > they'll probably share an office with Wikimedia Italy, in October. > The interesting fact is that the offices will be within a library ;-), so I > really expect a collaboration there. Wow. This is all great to hear -- can you include a link to the project? I'd like to blog about it. Warmly, SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
