AFAIK, IA always produce the jp2 files by himself. I suggest GLAMs to upload zipped folders of jpegs, so IA can do his magic and produce a book viewer and a PDF as well as the jp2.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, at 06:35 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > The problem for me is that librarians and other people who are genuinely > interested in Wikisource and IA > don't understand why > * they upload a good scan on IA > * see a good book on IA, via the viewer > * get an horrible djvu on Wikisource. > > This is the issue we should try to solve, otherwise we will lose a > potential important ally, content and new userbase. > Aubrey > > > Definitely! > > On a related note: most (all?) IA-scanned books have e.g. *_jp2.zip files > containing all the original scan images, but is there any standard for > user-uploaded books? Like your librarians above, I assume they're uploading > individual jpg/png files? Do these get combined into a single zip? I'm > thinking that they don't, and that ia-upload needs to provide the option of > using any of the following sources: > > - .djvu > - _jp2.zip (there's also _jpg.zip and _raw_jp2.zip, but I guess we > don't need to use them?) > - *.jpg + *.jp2 + *.png (i.e. use all images in the item, apart from > _cover_image.jpg) > - .pdf > > > Sound complete? Or are there other ways? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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