Re: [Wikisource-l] Strategic planning

2009-09-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Andrea Zanni, 03/09/2009 19:17: We could develop an Extension that could use metadata standard as DublinCore (or others). Currently we have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAIRepository installed. Does

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-04 Thread Lars Aronsson
John Vandenberg wrote: The underlying problem is that OL is approaching this from a traditional library perspective, and so is opening up slowly, and progress is slow and methodical. But they are not. They are starting from the Internet Archive (Brewster Kahle) perspective. Real archivists

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Lars Aronssonl...@aronsson.se wrote: ... For example, a new project might download the database dump from OpenLibrary and start to weed out the junk records. But that junk sorting could also take place inside OpenLibrary. Why not? Because metadata without