FOSS wins again: Free and Open Source Communities comes through on 19th Century Newspapers (and Books and Periodicals…)

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 06:16:09 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/23/foss-wins-again-free-and-open-source-communities-comes-through-on-19th-century-newspapers-and-books-and-periodicals/>

"I have never been more encouraged and thankful to Free and Open Source
communities. Three months ago I posted a request for help with OCR’ing
and processing 19th Century Newspapers and we got soooo many offers to
help.  Thank you, that was heart warming and concretely helpful– already
based on these suggestions we are changing over our OCR and PDF software
completely to FOSS, making big improvements, and building partnerships
with FOSS developers in companies, universities, and as individuals that
will propel the Internet Archive to have much better digitized texts.  I
am so grateful, thank you.  So encouraging."

Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "please support this amazing site:
https://archive.org/donate/ fwiw I’ve just given again…"

Share and enjoy,
                *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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