On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:20:48 -0500, Ben Brumfield <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be presenting on crowdsourced transcription at the Midwest Archives > Conference Fall Symposium next week and would like to spend some time on > Wikisource and examples of small-to-medium sized archives working with > Wikisource to transcribe handwritten material. > > I know about the US NARA-Wikisource example--though it's a bit too big to > be relevant for my audience--and really like the Archives departmental des > Alpes-Maritimes on Wikisource.fr (see > http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Partenariats/Archives_D%C3%A9partementales_des_Alpes-Maritimesand > http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2012/04/french-departmental-archive-on.html) > > > Are there other good examples of libraries and archives working with > Wikisource for handwritten material I should point to? Are there "how to"s > similar to the GLAM-Wiki guides? I'm fine dealing with French, German, or > Spanish, but suspect my audience would prefer Engish-language projects. > > Ben > http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
Ben, Speak to John Vandenberg, he has somewhat recently set up https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject SLQ based around the provision of images from the State Library of Queensland. We also had a crew from University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (if I remember correctly) working on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Field_Notes_of_Junius_Henderson Regards, Billinghurst _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
