On 19/08/2011 14:53, Roger Bamkin wrote:
There is actually a copy of the DNB on ODNB. I would have thought the
ODNB may give us it as it is clearly out of copyright? (and it would
legally be PD anyway) It might be worth asking if the wiki project
hasnt already made a request
It might not.
On 18 Aug 2011, at 23:39, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
What about the missing pages from the DNB project? Fairly small scale,
the list is at least ready to go for a significant number of volumes,
and an individual copy of the DNB is not a priceless artifact.
That sounds like an excellent
What's DNB?
On 19 Aug 2011, at 08:43, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
On 18 Aug 2011, at 23:39, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
What about the missing pages from the DNB project? Fairly small scale,
the list is at least ready to go for a significant number of volumes,
the Dictionary of National Biography; see:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB
Mike
On 19 Aug 2011, at 08:50, Patel, Vinesh wrote:
What's DNB?
On 19 Aug 2011, at 08:43, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
On 18 Aug 2011, at 23:39, Richard
There is actually a copy of the DNB on ODNB. I would have thought the ODNB
may give us it as it is clearly out of copyright? (and it would legally be
PD anyway) It might be worth asking if the wiki project hasnt already made a
request
On 19 August 2011 08:55, Michael Peel
On 19/08/2011 08:43, Michael Peel wrote:
On 18 Aug 2011, at 23:39, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
What about the missing pages from the DNB project? Fairly small scale,
the list is at least ready to go for a significant number of volumes,
and an individual copy of the DNB is not a priceless
On 19 August 2011 17:59, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Hang on - much as I love the DNB, there is huge amount to know before
saying spending money on it would be a good use. There are literally
hundreds of Google Books keys for DNB volumes, some of which don't work
What about the missing pages from the DNB project? Fairly small scale,
the list is at least ready to go for a significant number of volumes,
and an individual copy of the DNB is not a priceless artifact.
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We don't have the resources to do a Google and digitise all of a large
institution's archive - even if my wildest fantasies about our future
fundraising turn out to be true.
Neverthless I'd say there is a good case that we should support
digitisation. Obviously creating more open cultural content
On 17/08/2011 04:04, Fae wrote:
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I welcome any feedback on how well these projects fulfil our mission
and how often our funds ought to be invested in these projects
compared to other projects which may have greater impact for new user
outreach or wider e-volunteer engagement.
Well, if
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
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Further, experience at Wikisource suggests that
proofreading is the bottleneck, rather than scanning.
/snip
Other items in this interesting discussion notwithstanding, does anyone know
the
Hi WMUK folks,
I can maybe add a little useful information here. WMDE has had a special
budget for German Wikisource since 2007. It's been (to my knowledge)
exclusively used for digitization of individual documents. The budget has
not been used up in any year since it was creatd.
Michail
On 17/08/2011 12:11, Harry Burt wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
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Further, experience at Wikisource suggests that
proofreading is the bottleneck, rather than scanning.
On 17 August 2011 12:01, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
So I would be in favour of a pilot, to see how it all goes. Criteria: on
a medium scale; in a topic area that is rather clearly UK-centric, and
of fairly general interest; and something that could be pointed to as
My view would be only to show people how. e.g. I felt it was novel that we
were digitising someones stuff they had left in their will to be published.
However once we have proved it can be done and it is easy then we should
leave it to volunteers. Our budget does not compare to Google's.
On 17
I'm not sure the question at this point is whether it's the absolute best use
of WMUK funds. It is _a_ use of those funds, which is what has been lacking up
to now so far as I've noticed.
In any case the third/fourth bullet points sound like pretty ideal uses of
funds to me. I don't think
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