Jegelewicz

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 03:33, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Field journals — tasks required to be done if work is to be retained

Hi. Unpublished field journals from the 1960s are probably considered copyrighted works, and as such I am not certain that they fit within the scope expressed at Wikisource:What Wikisource includes. To be abe to accept them we are going to need to clear some hurdles about the work.

• Who owns its copyright, and is that released suitably so that Wikisource can host the work? I am believe that it is a living author, so in that case we would generally mimic the Commons process of c:Com:OTRS, and as the pages are uploaded as a file at Commons, that permission is requried there anyway. I have labelled it there as requiring permission.
• Generally we would not reproduce unpublished works (again see scope), though there is latitude within our scope to accept historical documents of notable people. For this community would need to reach consensus, and this author is yet to have a wikipedia article, one of our notability tests.

In short we need to talk, and we have some work to do if Wikisource is to retain this work. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:42, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I completely understand all of the above. Dr. Harris and I are working together to get his observational data published and then we plan to connect it to a biodiversity database called Arctos so that it will then reach the biodiversity community. I am using the method described in From documents to datasets: A MediaWiki-based method of annotating and extracting species observations in century-old field notebooks with some modifications, in that we will be able to link information in the journal directly to Arctos, providing a rich source of biodiversity information that is both ready for analysis (Arctos) and provides rich narrative context. Although Dr. Harris is still living, we are attempting to make use of the fact that he can complete the first transcription of his journals and assist with any questions about them as we transcribe. I will also be building his Wiki article over the next few months. He is a well-respected mammologist with published works who has made a significant contribution to the knowledge of biodiversity in the Southwest USA. His journals run from 1965 to 2016 and he owns the copyright. Information about his cataloged specimens and publications can be found on his Arctos page: Arthur H. Harris

I am just learning Wikisource and I would definitely appreciate any advice or assistance you could offer. I hope that we can continue with this project as it is important to Dr. Harris and I believe that his observations and their context will be important to the scientific community.

Thanks! Jegelewicz (talk) 13:15, 29 September 2018 (UTC)