Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal project that he's been working on for a long time:
http://www.unz.org/ It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which hosted there, some externally. Examples: http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRev http://www.unz.org/Publication/Century Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI: http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their writings. A couple of examples of author pages: http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHL http://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case, there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a research library for Wikipedians as well. Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
