[Foundation-l] Zotero / Archive Cooperation

Wed Jan 2 20:23:59 UTC 2008

Ok, as cool as this is...so? How does this relate to the Foundation Erik?

Chad

On Jan 2, 2008 3:16 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> FYI
>
> http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces/
>
>
> Recently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Center for
> History and New Media and the Internet Archive $1.2 million dollars to
> develop new services that will aid scholarly sharing, collaboration,
> citation, and annotation.
>
> In 2008, users will be able to drag and drop items into the "Zotero
> Commons"—a dedicated part of the Internet Archive's servers—through
> icon in the left column.
>
> Zotero Commons
>
> Items donated to the Commons will be stored in subdirectories of the
> Commons named for the donors. In addition to encouraging donations to
> the commons (since those donating will receive credit for their
> contributions), this feature will also enable users to identify others
> who are working with and/or annotating the same content, fostering new
> collaboration opportunities. The benefits to the scholarly community
> of the Common are thus threefold:
>
> 1) The availability of permanent, persistent archival, off-site
> storage for long-term management and use of digital content.
>
> 2) The ability to share resources publicly for easy access by other scholars.
>
> 3) The simplified discovery of new, related resources and potential
> collaboration opportunities.
>
> As an added incentive to donate to the Commons, the Internet Archive
> will provide free OCR for your contributions and send you the
> transcribed text to help you search your personal library.
>
> In addition, modifications will be made to Zotero to make it easier
> for researchers to select already archived files and web pages from
> the Internet Archive's existing collections rather than saving local
> copies. This will enable better referencing of "born digital" items
> and allow for the collaborative annotation of web documents.
>
> Zotero Commons and Zotero 2.0
>
> Zotero 2.0 will allow you to sync your library's metadata to the Zotero Server.
>
> You will sync your metadata with the Zotero server
>
> With Zotero Commons you will be able to contribute public domain
> images, texts, audio and other files.
> You can also contribute files to the Zotero Commons
>
> In turn, the Internet Archive will send you any text extracted from
> donated documents.
>
> --
> Erik Möller
>
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