Old Encyclopedia Digitization Project (OEDP)
Project Info
Old Encyclopedia Digitization Project (OEDP)
URL: https://encyclosphere.org/the-old-encyclopedia-digitization-project
Description: A project to digitize public domain encyclopedias in the ZWI file format.
Project lead(s): Larry Sanger, Nancy Hildebrandt
Biggest challenge: Autogenerating usable ZWI files from OCR text file output.
Date Started: Summer 2022
The Old Encyclopedia Digitization Project aims to digitize old encyclopedias in the ZWI file format. We will also make the results available via Oldpedia.org.
How much knowledge is buried in old encyclopedias?
We aim to find out—and to make it available via modern search engines, readers, and free files available via the Encyclosphere, with the Old Encyclopedia Digitization Project.
We began with this thought: we’ve made a file format for encyclopedia articles (the ZWI file format); wouldn’t it be awesome if we digitized a bunch of old, public domain encyclopedias and put them into ZWI files?
More introductory info (from late 2022) can be found at encyclosphere.org/the-old-encyclopedia-digitization-project.