After Wikimania, I took a trip to Toronto, where the
Internet Archive has a large book scanning center.
If you have worked on Wikisource, I think you know that
many of the books there come from the Internet Archive,
which provides scanned images and OCR text in the form
of a Djvu file, which can b
On 07/20/12 6:50 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
After Wikimania, I took a trip to Toronto, where the
Internet Archive has a large book scanning center.
If you have worked on Wikisource, I think you know that
many of the books there come from the Internet Archive,
which provides scanned images and OCR t
Hey Lars,
On 20-Jul-2012, at 7:50 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> The way the collaboration is set up, the room is provided
> by the University of Toronto, but the equipment and staff
> belong to the Internet Archive. The participating libraries
> around Canada decide which books to digitize and pay a
...@oclc.org
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I'd like this to be scanned, to start with:
http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1211661 ("L'illustrazione italiana").
It's a few dozens volumes; I've seen only one my grandma had and which
looked helpful.
Nemo
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Federico Leva (Nemo), 23/07/2012 20:41:
I'd like this to be scanned, to start with:
http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1211661 ("L'illustrazione italiana").
It's a few dozens volumes; I've seen only one my grandma had and which
looked helpful.
Lars, any news here? Should I contact them directly?
Nemo
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