[humanities-dev] Book scanning

Wed Sep 26 14:32:56 UTC 2012

In case this hasn't come to the attention of the book scanning folks on this list:

http://www.diybookscanner.org/

Best,

Jamie
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Jamie Folsom
Web Applications Developer
MIT HyperStudio

On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:00 AM, <humanities-dev-request at lists.okfn.org>
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> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:32:36 +0100
> From: Iain Emsley <iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [humanities-dev] Book scanning
> To: Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org>
> Cc: humanities-dev at lists.okfn.org,	"joris.pekel at okfn.org"
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> 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
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> 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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>> -- 
>> Sam Leon
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> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:59:13 +0200
> From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [humanities-dev] Book scanning
> To: Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org>
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> Just to let you all know - I've pinged some folks at the Internet
> Archive about this and will let you know what they reply!
> 
> J.
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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>> On 20/09/12 21:10, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>> 
>>> I believe the Internet Archive has scanning facilities in London that
>>> volunteers are free to use (given basic training). Shall we try and
>>> find out?
>> 
>> 
>> That sounds good. :-)
>> 
>> - Rob.
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