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Welcome to the GITenberg project mailing list.

GITenberg is making a git repo for every public domain book.

Why?

Public domain books are transcribed using OCR to take images, and turn them into raw text.

That raw text needs to be edited and formatted to be able to reproduce the original book.

Using git to store versions of books gives us lots of powerful collaboration tools, and an amazing history system to track changes.

Services like GitHub or Gitorious allow us to collaborate over the web on top of git.

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er...@hellman.net, … Ian Stapleton Cordasco4

11/2/18

Gitenberg's launch milestone

Most of the communication since last september has been in the gitenberg-dev repos. The Stevens team

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Gitenberg's launch milestone

Most of the communication since last september has been in the gitenberg-dev repos. The Stevens team

11/2/18

Eric Hellman, … Alexandre Rafalovitch3

9/8/17

What would you like to see in a gitenberg website?

I think doing a full-text search would definitely be an interesting and challenging exercise. I

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What would you like to see in a gitenberg website?

I think doing a full-text search would definitely be an interesting and challenging exercise. I

9/8/17

Guido Bartolucci, Eric Hellman2

1/25/17

Introduction

Welcome guido! I should probably mention by way of status update that Alex Cabal from Standard Ebooks

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Introduction

Welcome guido! I should probably mention by way of status update that Alex Cabal from Standard Ebooks

1/25/17

Cristian Consonni, Seth Woodworth2

8/21/16

Spam (in Italian) from this list

Huge apologies folks. I've blocked/banned the poster and given additional folks moderation rights

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Spam (in Italian) from this list

Huge apologies folks. I've blocked/banned the poster and given additional folks moderation rights

8/21/16

Jonathan Reeve

3/20/16

Re: [GITenberg] Abridged summary of gitenberg-project@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 1 topic

Awesome! So excited about this. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:47 AM <gitenberg-project@googlegroups.

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Re: [GITenberg] Abridged summary of gitenberg-project@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 1 topic

Awesome! So excited about this. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:47 AM <gitenberg-project@googlegroups.

3/20/16

Eric Hellman, … Sam Wilson4

3/16/16

gitenberg website is now useful

There's some tricky business with getting travis keys properly embedded into the travis files. I

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gitenberg website is now useful

There's some tricky business with getting travis keys properly embedded into the travis files. I

3/16/16

Eric Hellman

2/28/16

updated and added gitenberg crawling resources

There's a PR https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/gitberg/pull/94 that adds some resources that will

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updated and added gitenberg crawling resources

There's a PR https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/gitberg/pull/94 that adds some resources that will

2/28/16

James Bostock, … Eric Hellman7

12/15/15

Help gettting started

I think so. I wouldn't automate the application of the cleanup script over all repos though. At

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Help gettting started

I think so. I wouldn't automate the application of the cleanup script over all repos though. At

12/15/15

Jonathan Reeve, … Eric Hellman6

9/14/15

GITenberg for British Library ALTO XML texts

On Sep 14, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Reeve <jon....@gmail.com> wrote: The YAML metadata is

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GITenberg for British Library ALTO XML texts

On Sep 14, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Reeve <jon....@gmail.com> wrote: The YAML metadata is

9/14/15

Seth Woodworth

7/23/15

[help wanted] A simple asciidoc task cleaning up Moby Dick

Hey folks! If you're interested in getting involved and would like to know where we need help, I

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[help wanted] A simple asciidoc task cleaning up Moby Dick

Hey folks! If you're interested in getting involved and would like to know where we need help, I

7/23/15

Andrew Dunning, … Seth Woodworth11

7/21/15

TEI Simple

Discovery is indeed the main stumbling block, simply because it makes DP Project Managers feel that

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TEI Simple

Discovery is indeed the main stumbling block, simply because it makes DP Project Managers feel that

7/21/15

Eric Hellman

5/12/15

GITenberg Status Report #2

== GITenberg Status Report #2 Quite a bit of work has occurred since our last status report, though

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GITenberg Status Report #2

== GITenberg Status Report #2 Quite a bit of work has occurred since our last status report, though

5/12/15

Eric Hellman

4/30/15

Fwd: Join Us as President Obama Visits Anacostia Neighborhood Library

Probably worth watching Begin forwarded message: From: Digital Public Library of America <info@dp.

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Fwd: Join Us as President Obama Visits Anacostia Neighborhood Library

Probably worth watching Begin forwarded message: From: Digital Public Library of America <info@dp.

4/30/15

Albert Carter, … Sam Wilson4

4/20/15

How to get involved text

Hrm. For the editors, I'm fairly unclear on what URLs to send them to... or maybe I'll be

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How to get involved text

Hrm. For the editors, I'm fairly unclear on what URLs to send them to... or maybe I'll be

4/20/15

Eric Hellman

4/14/15

Fwd: [read20-l] print / digital BiB VI

Probably worth putting in a proposal. Last time I went I got snowed in to SF! Begin forwarded message

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Fwd: [read20-l] print / digital BiB VI

Probably worth putting in a proposal. Last time I went I got snowed in to SF! Begin forwarded message

4/14/15

Seth Woodworth, … Eric Hellman6

4/6/15

Remove computer generated audiobooks?

I highly doubt the copyrightability of Text-To-Speech generated audiobooks. I do want to support

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Remove computer generated audiobooks?

I highly doubt the copyrightability of Text-To-Speech generated audiobooks. I do want to support

4/6/15

Alex Cabal, Seth Woodworth2

3/31/15

Standard Ebooks tools

List joined, repos starred and watched. I will dig into these tools later this week and see if there

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Standard Ebooks tools

List joined, repos starred and watched. I will dig into these tools later this week and see if there

3/31/15

Seth Woodworth, … Sam Wilson16

3/28/15

Status of building asciidoc books

On 28/03/15 07:43, Alex Cabal wrote: standardebooks.org is the current project and entirely free,

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Status of building asciidoc books

On 28/03/15 07:43, Alex Cabal wrote: standardebooks.org is the current project and entirely free,

3/28/15

Tom Morris

3/27/15

More DP -> PG toolchain notes

The process to convert from a DP text with homegrown markup to an HTML file that can be submitted to

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More DP -> PG toolchain notes

The process to convert from a DP text with homegrown markup to an HTML file that can be submitted to

3/27/15

Eric Hellman, … Tom Morris13

3/26/15

GITenberg metadata. Part 1- boiling down the PG RDF

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Eric Hellman <er...@hellman.net> wrote: Comments inline On Mar

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GITenberg metadata. Part 1- boiling down the PG RDF

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Eric Hellman <er...@hellman.net> wrote: Comments inline On Mar

3/26/15

Tom Morris, Eric Hellman3

3/26/15

Project Gutenberg's epubmaker & PG RST

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Eric Hellman <er...@hellman.net> wrote: Somehow I'd missed

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Project Gutenberg's epubmaker & PG RST

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Eric Hellman <er...@hellman.net> wrote: Somehow I'd missed

3/26/15

Tom Morris, J West2

3/26/15

How do DistributedProofreaders, FadedPage, InternetArchive, OpenLibrary, etc fit with this?

OpenLibrary links back to the crappy IA formats which were derived from the raw uncorrected OCR, but

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How do DistributedProofreaders, FadedPage, InternetArchive, OpenLibrary, etc fit with this?

OpenLibrary links back to the crappy IA formats which were derived from the raw uncorrected OCR, but

3/26/15

Tom Morris, … Raymond Yee9

3/25/15

Example book

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Raymond Yee <raymo...@gmail.com> wrote: So it seems we

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Example book

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Raymond Yee <raymo...@gmail.com> wrote: So it seems we

3/25/15

Tiago Saboga, … Eric Hellman10

3/24/15

Work in progress - documentation (and suggestions)

Does anyone have experence of other vaguely similar projects and can share what has worked well in

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Work in progress - documentation (and suggestions)

Does anyone have experence of other vaguely similar projects and can share what has worked well in

3/24/15

Eric Hellman, … Seth Woodworth8

3/24/15

GITenberg status report

On Mar 24, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Tom Morris <tfmo...@gmail.com> wrote: Congratulations on the

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GITenberg status report

On Mar 24, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Tom Morris <tfmo...@gmail.com> wrote: Congratulations on the

3/24/15

Seth Woodworth, … Tiago Saboga3

3/24/15

Book repo file naming

I have still no clue about the future data-flow, and it seems to me a complex point. I understand it

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Book repo file naming

I have still no clue about the future data-flow, and it seems to me a complex point. I understand it

3/24/15

Eric Hellman

3/24/15

GITenberg metadata - Part 4. Metadata that’s needed, but missing. Also, covers.

Really, I'm getting towards the end of this braindump... https://gist.github.com/eshellman/

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GITenberg metadata - Part 4. Metadata that’s needed, but missing. Also, covers.

Really, I'm getting towards the end of this braindump... https://gist.github.com/eshellman/

3/24/15

Eric Hellman

3/23/15

GITenberg Metadata Part 3. Other sources of metadata

I look at the metadata for "Space Viking" from OpenLibrary, Google Books, Library of

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GITenberg Metadata Part 3. Other sources of metadata

I look at the metadata for "Space Viking" from OpenLibrary, Google Books, Library of

3/23/15

Eric Hellman

3/23/15

GITenberg metadata Part 2: Combing through the PG metadata

Having boiled down the RDF data in the first section, I take a close look at what's left. https:/

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GITenberg metadata Part 2: Combing through the PG metadata

Having boiled down the RDF data in the first section, I take a close look at what's left. https:/

3/23/15

Seth Woodworth

3/17/15

Fwd: [neovim] Neovim now has a gitter.im chat room

I tried out Gitter this morning. And I find it impressive. It is a nice github-account based web

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Fwd: [neovim] Neovim now has a gitter.im chat room

I tried out Gitter this morning. And I find it impressive. It is a nice github-account based web

3/17/15