Digitize my library from photos of books (covers and title/publication pages)
Budget: $8 – $15 USD
Hi! Here's a simple project: all you need to know is social-science standards of bibliographical citation, which I will explain and provide samples of, and all you need to do is look at photos I will take of the covers and first few pages of several hundred books, and the headings of a similar number of articles (originals or photocopies, chapters of books or publications in journals), and turn these into one carefully compiled bibliography or list of references, alphabetized by author. You get jpgs or pdfs from me, I get one docx from you.
The library is in several languages, English and German and Dutch and French and Indonesian and Kayan, so you need to be punctilious about copying the information. I will photograph each book in order, covers and then first pages (title, publication data), so that sorting the pictures by "Date modified" should give you a series of sets of photos, generally three for each book. These will not be in alphabetical order, but I will want to be able to link the photos with the bibliographical entries easily: maybe I'll number the cover photos, and you could start off each typed entry with that number in brackets. I'm not sure how many items I will want to include, so you might like to estimate a fee per title. Each entry should take no more than a few minutes.
Actually I have not yet made those photos-- waiting to see if I can find a perfect helpful scribe. So, this is not really urgent. But I look forward to getting it done, and thanks to whoever will do it!
Stef Morgan
The library is in several languages, English and German and Dutch and French and Indonesian and Kayan, so you need to be punctilious about copying the information. I will photograph each book in order, covers and then first pages (title, publication data), so that sorting the pictures by "Date modified" should give you a series of sets of photos, generally three for each book. These will not be in alphabetical order, but I will want to be able to link the photos with the bibliographical entries easily: maybe I'll number the cover photos, and you could start off each typed entry with that number in brackets. I'm not sure how many items I will want to include, so you might like to estimate a fee per title. Each entry should take no more than a few minutes.
Actually I have not yet made those photos-- waiting to see if I can find a perfect helpful scribe. So, this is not really urgent. But I look forward to getting it done, and thanks to whoever will do it!
Stef Morgan