Wikimedia Digitization User Group
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Objectives / Activities
editProposed scope of the group
- Bring together people and projects who digitize all kinds of public domain works (such as, records, photographs, artwork, and books) to generate a knowledge base to outline the processes and different methods of execution, focusing on the practical process, as well as, different alternatives for equipment (that is financially feasible and reasonable).
- Create video, text tutorials and OER for different digitization projects.
- Generate a knowledge base to outline the difficult process of rightsclearing, which is fundamental for safely uploading works to Wikimedia projects.
- Organize workshops with other Wikimedians and the public in general in which we can explain and teach how different digitization projects work as well as various methods for digitizing work.
- Support other Wikimedians, Chapters and Groups in their attempts to create other digitization projects.
History
editFor the user group, we will integrate members of two different projects (Public Domain Project and autores.uy) that will work together to achieve the goals of the WUG.
Swiss Foundation Public Domain
editThe Swiss Foundation Public Domain is a charitable organization under the supervision of the Federal Department of Home Affairs. The Foundation specializes in the conservation and utilization of public domain music and film material. We see our mission as rescuing recordings from past decades, produced on sensitive and easily damaged materials, from deterioration and potential oblivion. Under the working title "Public Domain Project" since 2009, the digitizing project is supported by WMAT, WMCH, WMDE, Zurich University of the Arts, SOS-ETH (Student organization of the Federal Institute of Technology), Init7.net (largest independent internet backbone in Switzerland) and other sponsors. Founders were Carl Otto Flisch (Music historian) and Philippe Perreaux (Copyright lawyer). The collection of the Project is 50'000 gramophone records (78 rpm shellac discs), various types of phonograph cylinders, vinyl discs and reel-to-reel audio tapes of radio broadcasts. Until now, the project has cleaned, digitized and copyright checked 1'500 of 78 rpm records, 533 of which are already in Wikimedia Commons.
autores.uy
editautores.uy is an initiative of Creative Commons Uruguay and Wikimedia Uruguay and was created with the intention to gather information about Uruguayan authors and their works that have been scattered or unavailable. We are especially interested in authors' rights and public domain status. In Uruguay, authors' works are under this status for 50 years after the authors' death.
We create databases that are available under the CC Attribution - Share Alike License (CC by SA) and offer filters to be searched by the author's names, surnames, discipline, public domain status, sex, date of birth and death. All of this data allows for the study of authorship evolution in Uruguay, and helps to establish cultural public policies.
For those authors that are under public domain we include a link to their digitized works that are available in platforms like Internet Archive or Wikisources. In some cases, taking into account digitizations from universities, other institutions, and sometimes uploaded material digitized by ourselves.
At the moment, we have information of 12208 authors from Uruguay and nearly 1502 works linked (that are either digitized by the volunteer group or copied from already existing sources like IA, Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay etc.). The main team behind autores.uy is integrated by: 1 IT programmer, 3 librarian and 2 community managers and a group of volunteers.
Reports
editMost recent report
editContact information
editWe have a mailing list intended to answer doubts, communicate new projects, share experiences, learn how to do a proper scanning and much more! Just join us in: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/digitization.
Interested in participating
editThe following is a list of users interested in participating in the Wikimedia Digitization User Group, and if they are already involved in a digitizing project.
| User | Project | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Zeroth (talk) | autores.uy / DIY Scanners | Uruguay |
| Pepe piton (talk) | autores.uy / DIY Scanners | Uruguay |
| Señoritaleona (talk) | autores.uy / DIY Scanners | Uruguay |
| Pdproject (talk) | Public Domain Project | Switzerland |
| Miacara76 (talk) | autores.uy / DIY Scanners | Uruguay |
| ChristophZ (talk) | Public Domain Project | Switzerland |
| Adam Cuerden | en:User:Adam Cuerden will show a mixture of restorations and personally-scanned items; I've also given a lecture to the public in Edinburgh which was well-received on Illustrating History on Wikipedia. en:WP:VERDI will show one project. I find the biggest obstacle is being one person - so much I could do. |
Scotland |
| Pineapples100 (talk) | WMCL - English Editing/Intern/Moral Support | Chile |
| Thelmadatter (talk) | not involved but interested in starting here | Mexico |
| Shyamal (talk) | Some digitization, a lot of cleaning, conversion, research, article improvement and archival on the Internet Archive | India |
| Yann | long term Wikisource and Commons contributor, I tried to digitize books myself with mixed results | France / India |
| Scanno | DIY Book Scanner Project. Building bookscanners, writing & translating into Spanish, helping the technology to meet the users. | Argentina |
| Rachmat04 (talk) | managing nonpublic Wikimedia Indonesia digital library | Indonesia |
| Satdeep Gill (talk) | I have digitized a small story on Punjabi Wikisource using my iPhone. | India |
| Viswaprabha (talk) | Fast image aquisition using smartphones; Scantailor; page and work data tabulation using google spreadsheets | India |
| Mounir Touzri | I have digitized some Documents of the archive of Tunisia | Tunisia |
| Jayanta Nath | Mentor at KLMLGK | India |
| Alex brollo (talk) | I'm interested about OCR and djvu manipulation, and writing a DIY djvu text editor | Italy |
| Vahur Puik | We (= Estonian Photographic Heritage Society) are into crowdsourcing metadata enrichment for historic photographs (Ajapaik.ee). In 2017 we initiated the translation of the FADGI guidelines into Estonian (in June 2018 the translation is still in the reviewing phase). | Estonia |
| Pablísima (talk) | autores.uy and ongoing Wikimedia Uruguay's projects | Uruguay |
| Bodhisattwa Mandal (talk) | Indic scripts OCR and Proofreading | India |
| Balajijagadesh (talk) | Indic scripts OCR and Proofreading | India |
| Asaf Bartov | Hebrew digital library | Israel |
| Sam Wilson | Wikisource, Commons, ArchivesWiki | Australia |
| Wikilover90 (talk) | Working on the Projects of collaboration with Punjab Digital library and Municipal Library, Patiala | India |
| Mauricio V. Genta (talk) | Wikimedia Argentina digitizing project. Several ongoing projects (books and photography) | Argentina |
| Pyb | Wikimédia France: Wikipédia:WikiGrenierDIY bookscanner (more to demonstrate Wikisource) and 30 000 slides to digitilize! | France |
| Sam/Jamie Tubers (talk) | I have participated in a few digitization projects in Nigeria | Nigeria |
| ProtoplasmaKid | Digitization project with National Library of Anthropology and History of Mexico | Mexico |
| Zeinebtakouti | Working on a documenting and digitisation the books on Wiki Commons and GLAM project | Tunisia |
| Hamed Gamaoun | not involved but interested in starting here | Tunisia |
| Felix Nartey | Working on a digitization project with the National Archives in Ghana | Ghana |
| Rachel Helps (BYU) | Did some batch uploading in the Harold B. Lee Library where I work. We occasionally upload photos related to editing projects. | Utah, USA |
| Spiritia (talk) | Some image digitization in the frames of the Collaboration with the Bulgarian Archives State Agency and some book digitization for Bulgarian Wikisource | Bulgaria |
| Jayprakash12345 | Create Indic-OCR for Indic-Communities | India |
| Adarshd8 | Digitalization project Moon V1.0\(Gesture Controlled Hologram)for Indian Education System | India |
| Pavan santhosh.s | Digitizing Telugu books in Telugu Wikisource | India |
| Satpal Dandiwal | Digitising Punjabi language books for Punjabi Wikisource | India |
| Marajozkee | interested to start digitizing books, need someone to guide | India |
| LibSciGirl | Digitizing state and federal documents and other materials for the Arizona Memory Project | United States |
| Filipinayzd | Working on Wikisource Loves Manuscripts | Philippines |
Resolutions
edit- Recognition Wikimedia Digitization User Group - October 2015
- First Meeting of the Wikimedia Digitization User Group - 20/4/2018