What is the partnership between Wikimédia France and the Bibliothèque nationale de France? And how was it implemented? This is the presentation done at the GLAM-WIKI:UK conference November 26, 2010 at the British Museum.

1. Collaboration between Wikimédia France and
the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Jean-Frédéric Berthelot & Sébastien Beyou
1er décembre 2010

2. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
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3. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
Rights
Public domain material : no copyright claims
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4. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
Rights
Public domain material : no copyright claims
1978 law : public data
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5. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
Rights
Public domain material : no copyright claims
1978 law : public data
« La réutilisation non commerciale de ces contenus est
libre et gratuite dans le respect de la législation en vigueur
et notamment du maintien de la mention de source. »
« La réutilisation commerciale de ces contenus est payante
et fait l’objet d’une licence. Est entendue par réutilisation
commerciale la revente de contenus sous forme de
produits élaborés ou de fourniture de service. »
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6. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
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7. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
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8. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
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9. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
Partnership
gift of 1400 books to Wikisource with images and OCR
the Wikisourcians have to proofread the texts
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10. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Protagonists
What’s that ?
Partnership
gift of 1400 books to Wikisource with images and OCR
the Wikisourcians have to proofread the texts
another side – the BnF allows the Wikimedia community to
use its autority data
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11. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Milestones
Difficulties
Milestones
October 2007 - Conference of Wikimédia France targeting
the academic world
March 2008 - End 2009 - Discussions with the BnF
January 2010 - March 2010 - Finalization, communication,
beginning of the technical work
July 2010 - Release of the books on Wikisource
October 2010 - First statistics
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12. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Milestones
Difficulties
Difficulties
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History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Milestones
Difficulties
Difficulties
Knowledge spreading Income
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History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Milestones
Difficulties
Difficulties
Knowledge spreading Income
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History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
What’s a community
Community
an informal group of volunteers with many cultures and
opinions
a partnership has to respect the existing communities
a community lives before and after a partnership
the community has a common background and culture
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16. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
What did we do ?
Technique
learned the specific format for the OCR (XML ALTO
developped by the Library of Congress)
learned the specific format of books of Wikisource (DjVu)
transformed the OCR into pure text, and then to DjVu
extracted the images in the books
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17. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
What did we do ?
Technique
intensive work of 3 engineers during 2 months (part-time
because volonteers)
a total of 6 months
easier because all 3 were at the same place (Rennes,
France)
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18. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Aim
Results
Statistics
Visualize the evolution of the work done on the books
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19. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Aim
Results
Statistics
169 books have been begun on the 1416 books
114 contributors
10,000 contributions by humans, 19,500 if we count bots
an average of 376 modifications of characters by page
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History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Aim
Results
Statistics
FIGURE: Activity of the contributors
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21. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Aim
Results
Statistics
FIGURE: Temporal activity of the contributors
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22. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Outcomes
Contacts
Outcomes
a form of acknowledgement by the BnF
an experiment with the French Wikimedia communities
the first big partnership with the French GLAMs ; one of the
first in the world
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23. Introduction
History
Community
Technique
Statistics
Conclusion
Outcomes
Contacts
Contacts
Discussions (WMFr)
Rémi Mathis
Alexandre Moatti
Valérie Chansigaud
Discussions (BnF)
Dominique Stutzmann
Technique
Sébastien Beyou
Jean-Frédéric Berthelot
Vincent Juhel
Advisor Wikisource
Nicolas Vigneron
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