Re: [Wikisource-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-12 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Lars Aronssonl...@aronsson.se wrote: Let's take a practical example. A classics professor I know (Greg Crane, copied here) has scans of primary source materials, some with approximate or hand-polished OCR, waiting to be uploaded and converted into a useful

Re: [Wikisource-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-12 Thread Samuel Klein
Keeping the wikisource list in cc: . SJ On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Karen Coylekco...@kcoyle.net wrote: Just a few comments on OL plans Thank you!  * version history for manifestations (latest cleaned up

Re: [Wikisource-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote: ... Let's take a practical example.  A classics professor I know (Greg Crane, copied here) has scans of primary source materials, some with approximate or hand-polished OCR, waiting to be uploaded and converted into a useful

Re: [Wikisource-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Onion sourcing. That would be a nice improvement on simple cite styles. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gregory Cranegregory.cr...@tufts.edu wrote: There are various layers to this onion. The key element is that books and pages are artifacts in many cases. What we really want are the