User talk:LA2

Other needs niclude the ability to scan books that have images embedded in the text. I don't know how this is being handled across the web and in libraries, but my current scanning project involves the Whole Earth Catalog, whose pages range from 1 to 5 columns, with images inserted by hand into the layout of each page. +Sj+

Hejsan, ser att du pillat på Leaflet/sv broschyren också samtidigt som mig. Eftersom jag inte orkade reda ut vem av oss som översatt till svengelska var av oss så skrev jag helt enkelt över din version så min bevaras. Hoppas du tycker det är ok att kolla vem av oss som skrivit mest svengelska med denna diff. Jag var för lat för det så valet stod mellan att bara använda den sista delen av min variant och att skriva över ditt. Hoppas det är ok (inget illa menat och om bara någon orkar gå igenom texten så blir den antagligen bättre än bägge våra texter!). TERdON 21:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

I very appreciate the idea to put digitized books in commons/wikisource. We should give scans to the Internet Archive for reasons of long-term archiving. Our community here can change its mind day by day and decide in three years that we do not need books like Blitzlexikon here. I am sure you are familiar with the principle of the LOCKS project: LOTS OF COPIES KEEP SAFE. Best, Klaus aka Historiograf --134.130.68.65 15:39, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Digitizing books with MediaWiki

Your work in this field is excellent, and the essay on your talk page is extremely important. This is the best work, in my opinion, that could possibly be done on Wikisource.

Question: What do you think of making your essay "Digitizing books with MediaWiki" into a general project page at Wikisource, where information on the topic could be updated and questions could be asked on the talk page?Dovi 08:58, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I have only just begun this digitization. I will accumulate some experience before I continue. --LA2 11:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, don't quite understand your answer: "only just begun this digitization"? What I meant was your essay about digitization. As a project page it could be updated as people gain experience.Dovi 15:32, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't see it as an "essay", only an early sketch of my ideas. Now I'm working in the "playground" section by digitizing two works. When I have more experience from this practical activity, time might be ripe for refactoring my ideas. I would really wish that someone else too would scan a book and make scanned images + OCR text available on Wikisource, perhaps with a different angle than mine, so that our collective experience could be based on more than one line of thinking. This work has just begun. --LA2 05:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, whenever you feel it's ready, we'd love to use it! Remember that even a project page does not have to start off perfect - it can develop and improve over time. And your "early sketch" is really quite good, and reflects a lot more thought and experience than your modest comments suggest :-) Dovi 07:06, 14 October 2005 (UTC)