2011/7/12 Samuel Klein <[email protected]>: > Andrea, I hear you suggesting that we need a different upload process > for pdfs and other documents, wherein when you upload them there is a > "digital document to paged wikitext" script that runs and generates an > appropriate result, which can then be imported elsewhere on the > projects as needed.
Yes, something like this. I mean, if we want, as Wikisource, to start collecting born-digital text we should think something that does the bulk work. >> My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the amount >> of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a >> difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional >> repository (5 minutes of their time, even less), how can we wikilibrarians >> think that they will come to us and upload and "curate" their text? > > Right - these should be doable by different people. An ambassador to > an institutional repository should be able to collect approving > signatures and do a bulk upload him/herself. Yep. We should discover if signature should be needed: maybe, we could even download them without telling anyone, if they use compatible licenses (CC-BY, CC-BY-SA: I'm not sure about Berlin decalration and such). And if Wikisource (or Commons) would have an OAI-PMH extension, we could directly harvest from repositories, on a montlhy basis. (but as we all know this point still needs much work) :-) Aubrey > -- > Sam. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
