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



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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/
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