On Aug 5, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Gaurav Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> On 04-Aug-2012, at 5:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> I am cataloguing the non-WM contacts I made at Wikimania. Reading up on
>> them, basically making the time I didn't have during the conference to
>> understand who they are. The BHL had three librarians at the conference, I
>> remember that they were very interested in a solution for getting OCR
>> corrections back into djvu files. They mentioned Wikisource in the blog post
>> they made about the conference. I thought the list might be interested in
>> what they had to say.
>>
>> http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/07/wikimania-2012.html
> I'm currently working with the BHL on a two-month, unrelated metadata
> project, part of which is making sure that BHL's illustration metadata can be
> easily synced with content in the Commons (see
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information_Art_of_Life for more
> details). So I don't know anything about BHL's plans for Wikisource, but let
> me know if I can help!
>
> Personally, I'd love to see more (annotated!) biodiversity texts in
> Wikisource, such as
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Salticidae_(Spiders)_of_Panama/Zygoballus
> -- these species descriptions are the formal definition of a new species, and
> the BHL has been a huge help in making these definitions available, online
> and for free, to taxonomists everywhere (to say nothing of tons of gorgeous
> illustrations! [1]). However, their transcription and indexing are largely
> automated, via OCR and text matching. Moving these essential resources into
> Wikisource, where transcriptions and indexing could be improved by hand,
> would be awesome!
To be honest I don't think they knew what Wikisource did before Wikimania. So I
doubt there is anything so firm as "plans". I know Aubrey and I, at least,
spoke with them. They are definately interested in the platform at Wikisource,
but they want to re-integrate the corrections made back into their collection.
This is something that is a problem with djvu files that we do not yet have an
answer for.
Birgitte SB
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