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Laura1822

Joined 7 August 2011
Awards for participation

Proofread of the Month
September 2014
Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine

Proofread of the Month
January 2016
The Comic English Grammar

Proofread of the Month
August 2016
Index:The Mythology of the Aryan Nations.djvu

Proofread of the Month
October 2016
My Life and Loves

Original plans

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My pilot project of the first volume of Ackermann's Repository is underway. Feel free to dive in and help out. Wikisource:WikiProject Ackermann’s Repository of Arts has preliminary info, but so far the bulk of activity is on the talk page, where I welcome suggestions and ideas.

I would like to build a project to enable others to help transcribe at least the fashion plate descriptions of all 40 volumes of the Repository, which are all available at IA. I hope to draw in people from here and from other places who are interested in early fashion periodicals as well as those with expertise in workflows here for periodicals, and who have (or can develop) tools and expertise for creating and managing djvu files.

Ideally I'd like to see djvu files created from the high-resolution images of the complete fashion journal runs at Bunka Gakuen: these need to be collected, split, cropped, assembled into djvus, and then uploaded at IA and at Commons (including the cropped high-res images separately)--all of which are tasks better suited to automation than to people (or to me personally, anyway). They have several other complete runs of several other late 18th/early 19th century fashion journals there, some of them very rare.

I am also interested in doing something similar for The Gentleman's Magazine (which turns out to be here already, though incomplete: I will study it), Annual Register, and other late 18th/early 19th century periodicals, and perhaps even novels or other non-fiction from this period. Ackermann’s Microcosm of London, which is also on IA, might make an even better introductory or pilot project, since there is less text, and the underlying high-res images would be valuable to Commons. Which reminds me-- I need to look for an automated way to upload jp2 files associated with a djvu to Commons, for the Repository as well.

At some point I will upload and transcribe some antique documents and newspapers that I own.

I welcome advice on how to structure and design these projects. I'm just getting started and am quite ignorant. Leave me a message on my talk page or the project's talk page to say hello or comment.

I have done a little bit of work at Project Gutenberg but have not gone beyond low-level proofreading. I hope that the workflow here is easier to manage. (It is so far.)

Heretofore on Commons I have devoted myself to portraiture and some categorization of fashion plates.

October 2021 update

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Obviously none of my ambitions described above have been realized. But they remain ambitions.

I do not have nearly enough energy to devote to WS as I would like, which makes me a very inconsistent user. In the future I will probably shift some of my focus from ca. 1800 English periodicals to theology and catechesis, and perhaps some economic and political philosophy. Since I don't seem to have what it takes to create and implement large projects, I will probably stick to basic proofreading.

At a philosophical level, after so many years of evolution of texts, from the early days of PG's text-only-no-formatting editions of the Bible and Shakespeare, to now where most people can read pdf files made from original book image files (as at gbooks and IA) on an ereader, or even on their phones, I wonder if the ultimate goal of creating proofread electronic text editions of all the public domain texts in the history of the world is still a valuable goal.

If that sounds pessimistic, it is, to some degree. But perhaps there is something else more valuable evolving.

Working

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Periodicals

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Literature

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Catholic

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Catholic misc.

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Catechisms

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Needed:

  • Full Bellarmine (Latin? English?)
  • Catechism of Saint Pius X (1880)
  • Catechism on Modernism of Pius X (1908)
  • Baltimore Catechism (original 1885 No. 2 Concilio and No. 1 Spalding's versions ) and later expanded 1-2-3-4 if available
  • Catechism of the Council of Trent
  • Catechism of Summa Theologica by Pegues (1922)

N.B. I will only include catechisms with imprimatur. There are over 15,000 catechisms on Commons (many not about religion, much less Christianity) and even books that claim to be "Catholic" I am, in my ignorance, unwilling to promulgate. Some may be unobjectionable; but some are questionable, and most are anti-Catholic.

Theology

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Liturgy

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Prayer

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See also: Bobdole2021's list on his user page

Doctors of the Church

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Liguori
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Rosary

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Hymnals and Gregorian Chant

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Miscellaneous

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