Commons:Bibliothèque nationale de France
Context
The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the National Library of France. Its mission is to constitute collections, especially the copies of works published in France that must, by law, be deposited there, conserve them, and make them available to the public. It is the most important library in France, and one of the most important in the world.
Presentation
In April 2010, Wikimédia France signed an agreement with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The library donated ~1,400 digitised public domain works, taken from its digital library Gallica, so they can be proofread by contributors to Wikisource.
Wikimédia France retrieved in late April image files in TIFF format and OCRs. A team of three volunteers of Wikimédia France worked to transform them into DjVu format that can be used on Wikisource.
The DjVu files were loaded on Commons by a system administrator of the Foundation on July 10 2010. The books index were initialised by bot on Wikisource the same day.
In August, the team worked to make use of the original TIFF files. As the images are heavily compressed during the production of the DjVu, the original files are of far better quality. The TIFF files were uploaded on Commons on August 25 2010. Moreover, the OCR files provided by the BnF indicate the presence of graphical elements detected during the scanning. Using this information, the team managed to automatically extract more than 22000 files. Stored for the moment on the toolserver, these illustrations will be made available to the Wikisource proofreaders so they can more easily reproduce the original layout. Some of the illustrations can also be of interest for example for Wikipedia articles. The team is currently looking into sorting the files and making them available to the community.
Protagonists
- Project managers
- Technical team
- Seb35, leader
- Plyd
- Jean-Frédéric
- Advisors
- VIGNERON, for Wikisource
- Multichill, for Commons
- Robots
- BnF import, operated by Tim Starling (upload on Commons)
- BnFBoT, operated by Seb35 (initialisation on Wikisource)
Related elements
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- Discussions
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Reporting
Announcements
- (English) Wikimédia France and the French national Library enter a partnership for Wikisource (PDF), 7 April 2010 , Wikimédia France
- (French) 1 400 ouvrages de Gallica seront versés dans Wikisource, 14 April 2010, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Mainstream press
- (French) Camille Gévaudan, La BnF signe un partenariat avec Wikimédia France, 7 April 2010, Écrans.fr
- (French) La BNF passe un accord avec Wikisource, 8 April 2010, 20 minutes
- (French) Numérisation des livres : la BNF s'associe à Wikisource, 8 April 2010, LeMonde.fr
- (French) Mathieu Chartier, Wikipedia devient partenaire de la BNF autour de Wikisource, 9 April 2010, PC World
- (French) David Feugey, Accord BNF - Wikimedia France: 1400 nouveaux ouvrages français pour la bibliothèque Wikisource, 12 April 2010, silicon.fr
Specialised media
- (French) Grégoire Leménager, La BnF s'en remet à Wikipedia, 8 April 2010, Le Nouvel Observateur
- (French) Christelle Di Pietro, La BnF s'accorde avec Wikimedia, 8 April 2010, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques
- (French) Jean-Pierre Lardy, Gallica et wikisource, 9 April 2010, URFIST
- (French) Silvère Mercier, Accord Bnf-Wikimédia : “Nous préparons le web de données”, 13 April 2010
Wikimedia universe
- (French) Rémi Mathis, Wikimédia France signe un partenariat avec la BnF, 7 April 2010
- (English) Wikipedia Signpost, French National Library to cooperate with Wikisource, 12 April 2010
- (English) Gerard Meijssen, French National Library seeks us out, 13 July 2010
- (Italian) Aubrey, Wikisource incontra la BnF, 21 July 2010