User:Haendelfan
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Putting together digital editions of journals or periodicals and getting them found worldwide not only in a concrete national library (e.g. the German wikisource)
[edit | edit source]Hello My name is Dirk and I have contributing actively to the German Wikisource for 15 years now. My primary area of interest are digital editions of journals and magazines, which I collect from all major digital libraries worldwide and allocate them to the appropriate concrete title (if a journal changed its title once or several times, while the different libraries allocate their digitized items to one of the titles irregardless of the title in the catalog entry.
I also take care of requesting the opening of digitized items on Google Books and or Hathitrust if mistakes in the metadata prevent these items from being open.
Finally I try to get volumes digitized which have not yet been covered by digitization projects worldwide, trying to get digital editions of journals as complete as possible.
Meanwhile I can pride myself by initiatizing digitizations of extremely rare journals or magazines, trying to save and get together a digital edition of ideally all volumes of a rare journal that have still been preserved at any library worldwide.
What I would like to discuss with reps from different countries is the questions whether there is any way of enabling e.g. journals whose language is English being found even though the English Wikisource does not allow / accept pure collections of links to the digitized volumes of a journal, but only full-text editions of either the complete volumes or single extracts from one or several volume(s) of the journal. I find that regrettable, but of course each national Wikisource may have their own take on the character of acceptable edits on WIkisource.
Still, I find it a merit to find curated digital editions of a journal comprising all volumes available in digitized form since trying to find a concrete volume on Google Books or Internet Archives is usually impossible.