On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Adrienne Alix <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
