I think between the examples you already know of and the ones Andrew
mentions, you already have all the major institutions on Wikisource in
English. The Archives of American Art has had language on its Wikipedia
WikiProject asking for transcriptions on Wikisource, but only a few pages
have been don
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fit.
Please feel free to reply here or contact me personally if you have any
questions. More information and instructions for applying can be found
here:
http://www.archives.gov/careers/internships/virtual/index.html#wikipedian
Thanks!
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Dominic McDevitt-Parks
Digital Content Specialist, Wi
On 24 November 2014 at 13:51, Andrea Zanni wrote:
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> Another greataccomplishment could be *giving back proofread OCR* to GLAMs:
> think about libraries (or Internet Archive!) give us ancient texts, and us
> giving them back a perfect djvu or PDF with mapped text inside...
> I'm sure we could hav
On 25 November 2014 at 11:33, Andrea Zanni wrote:
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> How would I do that now? Wikisource pages are not structured data (though
>> Wikimedia Commons image metadata will soon be!), so there is not a clear
>> way to use the Wikisource API to extract just the relevant transcribed text
>> on the page
