You'll certainly be interested on what Wikimedia Argentina is doing with DIY Book Scanners [1].
They tried to submit a Wikimania presentation, but the team behind it's organization simply refused the paper with no further details (sigh). At least, you can check some interesting infos both on [2] and [3]. I'm CC'ing Evelin. She is the person behind this successful approach. Best, [[m:User:555]] ---- [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2014-02#New_scanner_at_our_office [2] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open_Source_for_Open_Content:_GLAM,_the_DIY_Book_Scanner_community_and_Wikimedia_digitalize_public_domain_books._Case_study_from_Argentina [3] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open_Source_for_Open_Content:_GLAM,_the_DIY_Book_Scanner_community_and_Wikimedia_digitalize_public_domain_books._Case_study_from_Argentina On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carles, > > Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet > operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast > (>500p/hour). > > Pyb > > [1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html > > > 2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a >> professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local >> libraries. >> >> I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option: >> >> http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192 >> >> Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any >> recommendation? >> >> Regards, >> >> Carles >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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