[Foundation-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

Tue Aug 11 08:21:07 UTC 2009

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:32 AM, John Vandenberg<jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>...
>> Let's take a practical example.  A classics professor I know (Greg
>> Crane, copied here) has scans of primary source materials, some with
>> approximate or hand-polished OCR, waiting to be uploaded and converted
>> into a useful online resource for editors, translators, and
>> classicists around the world.
>>
>> Where should he and his students post that material?
>
> I am a bit confused.  Are these texts currently hosted at the Perseus
> Digital Library?
>
> If so, they are already a useful online resource. ;-)
>
> If they would like to see these primary sources pushed into the
> Wikimedia community, they would need to upload the images (or DjVu)
> onto Commons, and the text onto Wikisource where the distributed
> proofreading software resides.

I see CC-NC...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2003.02.0004

Too bad.

Magnus