I just create last week this page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Chapters_Exchange/Digitization
to try to aggregate chapter's experience in digitization project. cheers Charles ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chairman "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch Le 13 juin 2013 à 15:39, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> a écrit : > Some research libraries in Stockholm (at archives and > museums) have put up book scanners that the public > can use. They have the same function as a public > copier, but you get your copies on a USB stick rather > than on paper. > > This opens an interesting opportunity for Wikisource and > similar volunteer book scanning projects. Instead of > buying expensive equipment, experimenting with > cameras and lighting, or building your own scanner, > you can just visit such a library. I guess you can even > bring your own book and scan it there, instead of just > using the library's books. (Of course you still need to > consider copyright. That goes without saying.) > > Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish chapter of the WMF, > started a wiki page to document some experience > from this kind of use, in Swedish of course, > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allm%C3%A4nhetens_bokscanner > > Here is an example of a book that was scanned this way, > http://runeberg.org/nordmuseet/1897/0001.html > (Ironically, it is the annual report for 1897 of the museum > where it was scanned. They have the scanner standing in > their own library, but they have not scanned their own > reports.) > > Are you familiar with anyting similar? Any other pages > that we should link to? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > > Wikimedia Sverige - stöd fri kunskap - http://wikimedia.se/ > > Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Cultural-Partners mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners > Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for > permission before forwarding emails off-list.
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