Wikimedia Australia (the western branch of it anyway) is about to start a three-month residency at the State Library of Western Australia, and we've got an office (which I'll be working from pretty much full time). If it's a success, perhaps in a few months' time I'd love to be able to put my hand up for WMAU to be custodians of a book scanner! But probably postage to Australia would be too much. :-)
—Sam On Mon, 8 May 2017, at 02:18 AM, Carles Paredes Lanau wrote: > I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with > any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for > internal use of Wikimedia communities.> Amical Wikimedia purchased and > assembled The Archivist, DIY Book > Scanner (http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in March 2015. We > wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM network, to help > them to free resources and scan documents previously not avaliable for > general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime Museum of > Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the past and > with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working there as > professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the > project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues. > You can check the books scanned in the following link: > https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586. It was an interesting > project with relevant results. However, we decided to discontinue it > because it needed a close assistant we could no longer offer and > people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it > was very different from the scanners they used in the past.> > That's why we want to offer the scanner to other Wikisource > communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to continue > digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having a The > Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss how to > handle it.> > Thanks in advanced. > > Carles Paredes (KRLS) > Amical Wikimedia > > _________________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
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