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On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I have some books I'd like to digitize, but can't decide between
> OpenLibrary and WikiSource. I'm a bit concerned about WikiSource as who
> knows how long their business model will hold up? Can someone compare the
> advantages and disadvantages of WikiSource and OpenLibrary?
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The "business" model of both is the same.  They're both projects of
non-profit charitable foundations.  OpenLibrary is a project of the
InternetArchive and WikiSource is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

To compare them in terms of sustainability, you'd really need to look at
size and diversity of community, diversity of funding sources, etc.

Having said that, the digitization is the hard part (at least to do it
right), not the storage.  You can store it on one and move it to the other
if the first fails, store it on both, store it additional places besides
these two, etc.

Tom
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