I did put a few of the books up in the past (as PDFs provided by the BL, then manually converted to DjVu):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).djvu https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).pdf https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Journey_in_Khorassan_and_Central_Asia I kept running into size limits & wasn't quite sure how best to get the right material to Wikisource, but if there's particular titles, let me know & I'll see what can be done. On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the stray text around the images - it shows that the picture > is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or > engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The > problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations, > which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or > printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless > Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use > those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons > image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic > books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource. > > 2013/12/18, geni <geni...@gmail.com>: >> On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen >> <matthew.flasc...@gatech.edu>wrote: >> >>> >>> As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community >>> can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content. >>> >> >> Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to >> remove things like stray text. >> >> -- >> geni >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>