Using Wikisource with Library and University Collections

The role that Wikisource can play in improving awareness of and engagement with collections within Library and University Collections is significant. Discover the ways in which the University can increase the reach of its collections nationally, and globally.

Libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

Wikisource resources from the National Library of Scotland

 

The material on Wikisource should ideally be proofread from a scan of the original, physical text: a book, magazine, newspaper, etc. The first step in this process is therefore scanning and digitising the text in the first place.

Advice for texts containing images.

Wikipedia and Libraries - Interview with Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw

Wikisource and Wikibooks: Open education on Wikipedia's sister projects - Martin Poulter at OER16 

Presentation by Martin Poulter on Wikibooks and Wikisource.

 

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