[Wikisource-l] Last CFP: GCIRE2016 - Green Computing, Intelligent and Renewable Energies

2016-01-11 Thread Conference Announcement
The Second International Conference on Green Computing, Intelligent and Renewable Energies (GCIRE2016) University of Perpetual Help System DALTA Las PiƱas-Manila, Philippines February 24-26, 2016 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/gcire2016/ === The event will be h

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bodhisattwa Mandal, 11/01/2016 11:12: Nemo, yeah, I was talking about a bot which can use the said IA upload tool. Ok. I wrote such a bot: https://github.com/nemobis/BEIC/blob/master/BEIC-ia2commons.rb Most of the work is in finding and parsing the metadata. The Internet Archive metadata is n

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread billinghurst
There have been a couple of responses. To me there is nothing that has excellent metadata that allows the import of files to Commons. To do it well, the data at IA needs to be updated, with splits; it is good data, but it is not excellent data. There are regularly errors or significant omissions,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi , Aubrey, I understand. Nemo, yeah, I was talking about a bot which can use the said IA upload tool. And no, its not so hard to use it manually. Just asking. No issues. :-) Regards, -- Bodhisattwa Mandal ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bodhisattwa Mandal, 11/01/2016 10:06: 1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to impossible to be done manually. There is https

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Andrea Zanni
Hi Bodhisattwa, regarding your first proposal, I'm not sure to understand the advantages of having hundreds thousands books in Commons, right now. Commons manages metadata poorly, Internet Archive is much more efficient. I do find that the added value is when the book is in WIkisource, but this mea

[Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Two questions- 1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to impossible to be done manually. 2) Is there any bot running, which