Projects/Aboriginal communities outreach/Digitalization equipment

Legal name of organization or individual requesting this grant

Wikimedia Canada

Grant contact name

Alan Walker?

Grant contact username or email

TBC

Grant contact title (position)

Project lead name

JP Béland

Project lead username or email

User:Amqui

Project lead title (position), if any

Full project name

Acquisition of digitalization equipment for Wikimedia Canada

Amount requested in USD or local currency (USD will be assumed if no other currency is specified)

600

Provisional target start date

TBC

Provisional completion date

TBC

Budget breakdown

TBC

Project goal

Digitization of existing hard copies references is an integral part of making the World knowledge available to everybody. The equipment can serve the owners of the documents directly, but the project of scanning documents sent by mail will also be established.

On top of digitize normal old document, one particular use of the digitization equipment with Wikimedia Canada will be to offer this service to Aboriginal communities in order to digitize the references in Canadian indigenous languages. A lot of indigenous communities across Canada have resources centre where they hold references in and on their languages. A lot of those books are now in the public domain and could be digitized for sharing on Wikisource.

Non-financial requirements

None.

Fit to strategy

• Breaking new ground
• Increasing content
• Increasing quality

Measures of success

• Digitization of references for Wikisource
• Increase in the awareness of the possibility to use Wikimedia projects in language's revitalization programs

Team members (optional)

• User:Amqui for this initial phase.