> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are there any digitization projects (or library projects)
> > that carefully index the illustrations found in books,
> > i.e. that reconstruct the list of illustrations in digital
> > markup?

The nearest to what you ask I have seen at Wikimedia Commons,
esp. in the biology category, participants digitize drawings
from books for usage in all Wikimedia projects. These are then
categorized, also by book title, e.g.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Beobachtungen_aus_der_Zoologie_und_vergleichenden_Anatomie

or

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Natural_History_of_Sokotra_and_Abd-el-Kuri

The latter example refers in Source to a biodiversity.org page
which has all metadata and page info, so, theoretically, a bot
could collect all this in a database.

Surely, commons would be a good start for such a project, anyway.

HTH,
ralf

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