Hi Emijrp, Looks like a great find!
It seems to me that transcribing these volumes onto Wikisource would be a great step toward getting them used as sources for Wikipedia articles. In case you (or somebody else on the list) are not familiar with Wikisource, it's basically a place where you can: * start with scanned books (like those you linked below) * transcribe them (using a combination of Optical Character Recognition and manual transcription) * match up the transcribed pages with the scanned images (for an example, see: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AEnglish_Caricaturists_and_Graphic_Humourists_of_the_nineteenth_century.djvu/56) The advantages are many, but here are a few: * Once a book is transcribed, it's easy to use a tool like translate.google.com to get a rough translation into another language * It's possible to use wikilinks to Wikipedia articles, Wiktionary definitioins, etc. to add context * It's possible to make small readability/usability improvements on the original, like neatly aligned bullet lists, linkable footnotes, etc. So, it might be interesting to start transcribing one of these volumes to Wikisource as a first step toward using them in Wikipedia. There are some very sophisticated tools that automate a lot of the process; I'm not a great expert myself, but if you'd like, I could see if there's a Spanish speaker who could guide you through the process of uploading these to Spanish Wikisource. -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] on English Wikipedia, Wikisource, etc. On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:39 AM, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...with biographies about females, 3 volumes: > > - Volume 1: http://books.google.es/books?id=zhxCuOr0gREC&pg=PR3&hl=es > - Volume 2: > > http://books.google.es/books?id=VBZt5xlN4L0C&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 > - Volume 3: > > http://books.google.es/books?id=ETgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 > > Perhaps it deserves an entry here > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MISSING > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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