By way of forking the discussion, on Thursday 25 May 2006 at 01:10 am, Greg Newby responded to Jon Ingram with:
Woah there, cowboy.
I've been waiting for DP to provide raw page scans for *years*. This is something I discussed with Charles & Juliet years ago. The whitewashers are ready. iBiblio is ready.
And the volunteer is ready. I volunteered nearly two months ago to take up this task and am simply waiting on various action items from a few people. Charles always intended to have the scans from DP available to the general public whenever possible.
I've also been pressing to get preprints from DP...scans before the postprocessing is done, to release "to the wild" before they're quite ready. (Last count there are over 800 of these.)
It's an interesting idea, but initially I'd like to focus on getting the existing projects in order. :)
If you could help to move things forward on either scans or preprints, I'd be very grateful! (Ditto for anyone else reading.) -- Greg
-- David