----- "Thomas Dalton"
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>om>:
We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK
board meeting about
potentially
buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate
content
for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked
my
interest.
What do we want to digitise? I think that needs to be worked out
before we can determine what kind of equipment we need.
The idea was books but it very much depends on how much it costs and what it
can be used for.
Unlikely to be able to do much existing book digitalisation projects
cannot. Better targets are things that no one else appears to be
looking to scan or where higher res scans are needed. for example this
collection: