Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner for you?

2017-05-08 Thread Sam Wilson
Wikimedia Australia (the western branch of it anyway) is about to start a three-month residency at the State Library of Western Australia, and we've got an office (which I'll be working from pretty much full time). If it's a success, perhaps in a few months' time I'd love to be able to put my hand

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner for you?

2017-05-08 Thread scann
Hi Nicolas, That's a Hackerspace scanner (Carles seems to have The Archivist one, which has some differences). I'm part of the DIY Book Scanner project, so if you have any feedback over why the project didn't work, it would be more than interesting to hear it. Maybe you also want to check out

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner for you?

2017-05-08 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
Hi, Thanks for the proposal but Wikimédia France already has one (is it the same ? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Book_scanners_of_Wikimedia_France ) that is not often used (indeed it needs some tech skills and time). I don't recall if Wikimedia CH already has one or is currently

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner for you?

2017-05-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for this update on the DIY scanner projects. Carles Paredes Lanau, 07/05/2017 20:18: You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586 Only one? Or do you mean all the 89 items in https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb ? people

[Wikisource-l] Scanner for you?

2017-05-07 Thread Carles Paredes Lanau
I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for internal use of Wikimedia communities. Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner ( http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in