[Foundation-l] Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica on Wikimedia

Wed Nov 9 02:11:06 UTC 2005

For those who don't know, the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is a famous 
public domain encyclopedia, advertised as the "sum of all human 
knowledge" in 1911.

I recently (today) acquired a DVD containing scans of every page of the 
1911 Britannica, along with index files for it all, organized by letter 
and page number. I've already talked with avar, TimStarling, and brion 
on IRC, and TimStarling specifically asked me to tell you all that he is 
"confident that the server requirements will be minimal." They would set 
up a domain name, generate some web pages automatically using the index 
files, and host the entire set of 29,700 files totaling about 4 GB.

One more thing, these are black and white TIFs, and there is discussion 
about whether they should be mass converted to PNGs to be easily viewable.

brian0918 at gmail.com