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. Neil Gaiman, 2013 Wikisource resources from the National Library of Scotland Document National Library of Scotland Wikisource Project: Proofreading Guide (1.84 MB / PDF) Document National Library of Scotland Wikisource Project: Validating and Transcluding Guide (455.67 KB / PDF) Scanning texts 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. Image extraction 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. © Ewan McAndrew and Erin Boyle, University of Edinburgh, 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. This article was published on 2024-10-08