Hi, In 2008/9 WMFr digitized 95 thesis (roughly 4 228 pages) from the 19th century.
We actually paid a digitization company to handle the process. The partnership page on wikisource (in french : http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Partenariats/%C3%89cole_nationale_v%C3%A9t%C3%A9rinaire_de_Toulouse ) and all the files on commons : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:%C3%89cole_nationale_v%C3%A9t%C3%A9rinaire_de_Toulouse A little return on experience : 1/ paying a company to do it is the way to go. For many obvious pratical reasons but also for one legal less obvious reason : insurrance. The books / content digitized are often old and valuable, you don't want to be responsible if anything happen 2/ On the french Wikisource there's too few editors hence copyediting the content is a long process (not over yet) 3/ it's'a great way to spend money. Little worload and visible results Hope this helps you in this discussion All the best Christophe Board member of the chapter on the right end of the channel Envoye depuis mon Blackberry -----Original Message----- From: Chris Keating <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:06:04 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question: When and how often should WM-UK give grants for digitization projects? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
