{"id":27,"date":"2017-12-07T01:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/?p=27"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:07:26","slug":"wikisource-the-hyper-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wikisource-the-hyper-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikisource &#8211; the hyper library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take <strong>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/strong> as an example.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_30\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Louis Stevenson by John Singer Sargent [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>If we look at his author page, we will find links to a variety of works that are now in the public domain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Novels\">Novels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Short_stories\">Short stories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Short_story_collections\">Short story collections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Travel_writing\">Travel writing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Poems\">Poems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Essays\">Essays<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Letters\">Letters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Works_about_Stevenson\">Works about Stevenson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Works_about_Stevenson\">Works about Stevenson&#8217;s works<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Other\">Other works<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click to visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson\">author page on Wikisource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If we look at his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Other\">Other works<\/a> we find a text called <a title=\"Edinburgh (Stevenson)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Edinburgh_(Stevenson)\">Edinburgh<\/a> (1914).<\/p>\n<p>This was a text recently uploaded to Wikisource from a djvu scan on the Internet Archive. The text was OCR-ed and proofread by two Wikisource users to ensure it was correct. Now it is 100% searchable HTML and the images have been cropped out so they can be shared individually as openly-licensed images on Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>As a result we now have:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1) The<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Edinburgh_(Stevenson)\"> illustrated text <\/a>described as &#8220;<em>to the Scot it ought to be a sort of Bible<\/em>&#8221; in 100% searchable HTML on Wikisource.<\/p>\n<p>2) Illustrations shared to <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Images_from_Edinburgh:_Picturesque_Notes\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> for anyone to share and reuse.<\/p>\n<p>3) A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edinburgh:_Picturesque_Notes\">new Wikipedia article<\/a> created on the book with a link to these images and to the text on Wikisource. 1 click away!<\/p>\n<p>4) A link to the text on Wikisource added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edinburgh#19th_and_20th_centuries\">Wikipedia page for Edinburgh<\/a> so that the text is surfaced on a <em>relevant<\/em> page where people can discover it.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe me about the 100% searchable HTML? Type &#8220;<em>moist eyebrows<\/em>&#8221; into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson\">search bar on Wikisource <\/a>and see if it can find where Stevenson uses it in one of his novels. Make sure you use the speech marks so it can find the exact phrase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT PAGE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wikisource-oh-the-places-you-will-go\/\"><em>Oh the places you will go<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/\"><strong>HOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take Robert Louis Stevenson as an example. If we look at his author page, we will find links to a variety of works that are now in the public domain. Novels Short stories Short story collections Travel writing Poems Essays Letters Works about Stevenson Works about Stevenson&#8217;s works. 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