Comments on: Ones and O’s: The Advantages of Digital Texts in Wikisource

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Tue, 29 May 2012 05:04:02 +0000

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By: Júda

Júda — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:36:45 +0000

Blog post (in Hebrew): http://digitalwords.net/?p=725

By: Beeswaxcandle

Beeswaxcandle — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:08:36 +0000

Re: “typing the text in”. We don’t have to do that in several of the language domains. The proofread extension in Wikisource means that we can take OCRed text and correct that. This means that we have the best of both worlds – the scan is available to those who want to verify the original text and a searchable cleaned up digital copy is available to those who need it in that format.

By: Júda

Júda — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:38:05 +0000

Wow! Wikisource is so fun to use, and the result looks great…

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%86lfric%27s_Lives_of_Saints

By: Júda

Júda — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:41:19 +0000

Thanks!

For my MA thesis I work on Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Since there is no adequate digitised edition for it, I have to create one on my own, typing the whole book (hundreds of pages in Old English!). You’ve convinced my to upload the result to Wikisource, instead of hosting it on my website. I’ll do it as soon as I finish the first volume (of two).

By: raama0803

raama0803 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:59:05 +0000

Really good post sir, As a frequent user of Wikisource, I got another point of advantage for the digitization, which is, the protection and reproduction of books that are very old and and have been stopped from being published. One good example for that are the whole lot of Sanskrit texts.

By: aharoni

aharoni — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:17:26 +0000

Yes, i understand that some people find it boring. I’m going to write a detailed post about that, too, but basically, you are supposed to pick a text that you like in the first place or which you wanted to read for a while, and then instead of just reading or re-reading it, you type it, too. But there’s more than that.

By: Arjuna Rao Chavala

Arjuna Rao Chavala — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:11:02 +0000

Interesting post on the benefits of digitization. What works against is the lack of creative aspect in digitization, not even on par with contribution to other wiki projects.

By: wizardist

wizardist — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:21:36 +0000

These are the features I’ve tried the National Library of Belarus to be aware of. Unfortunately, the people from NLB I was working with were said to stop such “innovative collaboration”. Belarus is so Belarus…