User:WeeJeeVee/Source2015

Verslag congres wikisource:

Friday morning

• Hello by Claudia of Wikimedia Austria
• User:Aubrey, Andrea: goal of this first international conference on Wikisource is to create an international Wikisource community.

• A very interesting introduction to Wikisource by Charles Matthews. See his presentation and the Etherpad. Somewhere along the road the writing in the etherpad stopped. The lecture had so much information in it..... It would be really worthwhile to get his lecture summarized in some way!
  • Very important is the development of the proofread-extension; is there a good history of it, already?
  • Another important point: the relation between the sisters: Wikipedia, Commons (with Wikisource as the Cinderella); and recently of course the relation to Wikidata.
• About the technical infrastructure: an introduction by Thomas Pellissier Tanon from France.
  • Interesting is for instance: the IA-Upload tool to easily upload from Internet Archive (and from Google Books).
  • But first of all it is necessary to show the importance of Wikisource, inside the Wikimedia-community (and the Wikimedia Foundation etc.): (1) identity ("Manifesto") and (2) roadmap for the future.
• User:Slowking4, Jim Hayes from Washington DC about the relation with GLAMs; for instance the Smithonian Institute. (vgl. "Vele Handen" in nl). Important question: what do we give back to GLAMs? Connecting Wikisource and Wikidata in a good way will provide a good entry for this (for instance by having a link to WorldCat).
  • btw: the "workflow" now is often (as Aubrey tells): put your pdf or collection of jpgs or so in archive.org. They will do all the work in creating djvu etc. We can use that.
• Time for a short interlude: User:Ijon, Asaf Bartov who is a staff member of the Wikimedia Foundation, about a project to "crowdsource" a Hebrew encyclopedia: Ben-Yehuda (outside Wikimedia). The idea might be to export it to Hebrew Wiktionary one day.

Friday afternoon

• We spend quite some time with a Belgian friend, Mark van den Borre, who presented to the conference his diybookscanner.

The scanner is quite a huge apparatus, that can be built from parts that can be made on a lasercutter, together with other low budget components. The central part of it consists of two low level cameras, on which dedicated software is loaded. These cameras are connected to a raspberry pi. The book is entered in a 100° corner. Two pages are photographed at once. There is a kind of handle that brings the book to its right place. The photo is made by pressing a foot pedal

• User:Ernest-Mtl, Ernest Boucher from Quebec, Canada tells us about his experience with collaboration with banq: (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec). Started 2014

• • Some very interesting experiences: found a lost book from the beginning of the 20th century and republished it (in a very small number, by Wikimedia Canada), so that it could be placed in the library: Les pirates du golfe St-Laurent.
  • Don't create to high expectations at first! It's much better to tell that you can proofread 25 books, and do 61, then promise to do a hundred, and only produce 61.

• Short presentation about MARC in Wikibase from a librarian/it-guy from Italy (Giovanni Bergamin / Cristian Bacchi).