[humanities-dev] Book scanning

Tue Sep 25 20:32:36 UTC 2012

Hi Sam and Joris,

I think it would be a good idea to see where the ODP is and how we can 
contribute. Sam, as you say we might be able to contribute resources or 
ideas - I am sure we have plenty.

Joris, an introduction would be great as would a small project.

My main concern is that we don't spend energy re-inventing a wheel that 
a project like ODP is working on. If we can help push it forward either 
through practical help or taking some of the ideas and popping them into 
practice, more power to us.

I've been talking to Michael about the Data Wrangling Handbook and he's 
keen to collaborate on that as well which I think goes towards one of 
the conversations that we had.

All best,

Iain

On 25/09/12 10:21, Sam Leon wrote:
> Hi Iain,
>
> Javier is very keen to use open source tools developed by the OKFN or 
> others as part of the Open Digitisation Project - and I think that 
> project offers one of the most plausible avenues for actually putting 
> some of the technologies being developed on this list to use.
>
> For those who don't already know what the Open Digitisation Project is 
> I have attached a brief summary.
>
> All the best,
> Sam
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Iain Emsley 
> <iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk <mailto:iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Sam,
>
>     Thanks for the invite to the Cultural Commons meeting. Thought
>     provoking stuff indeed. I was thinking yesterday and over this
>     morning about the Digitisation Project which the Open Rights Group
>     have started. We've discussed our own book scanner and crowd
>     sourcing on the list but not got too far with it as far as I can
>     tell. (If I am wrong, please let me know - I know I've got some
>     things running but not in releasable state.) Is it worth throwing
>     any effort that we have towards http://opendigitisation.org/ and
>     getting involved there rather than re-invent the wheel? Javier
>     seems to have a really good idea about what is involved at various
>     levels.
>
>     Just a thought.
>
>     Iain
>
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