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Below you will find a list of suggested projects to transform the core values into a reality. Feel free to create subpages, add more ideas, or discuss existing ideas in the corresponding subpages.
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===High quality digital books===
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*'''[[Wikisource:BookManager|Book Manager]]''' is a proposed feature to bundle pages into a single unit, instead of a scattered and loosely-organized set of pages.
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*'''[[Wikisource:Visual index|Visual index]]''': One of the biggest hurdles for newcomers is to get familiar with the formatting templates that we use on Wikisource. A way to ease the learning process could be to create a visual index.
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===Embrace standards===
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*'''Text encoding''': Suggested [[Wikisource:TEI|TEI XML markers]] to complement wikitext/HTML. The TEI XML is widely used by the [[:w:en:digital humanities|digital humanities]] community.
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*'''Text exporting''': EPUB (already supported), ODT (already supported), TEI (not supported yet). There are XSLT 2.0 specifications to transform TEI XML documents to XHTML, to LaTeX, to XSL Formatting Objects, to OOXML (docx), and to ePub format.
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*'''Djvu viewer''': both DJVU and PDF formats are supported, however we don't have any web DJVU viewer. It is suggested to adopt the Internet Archive Book reader.
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*'''Annotations''': Wikisource could support some annotation system that would allow to comment texts, serve book quotes on demand or act as an anchor for Wikipedia citations. 
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*'''Book authority control''': Wikidata will allow us to make our book database available to the world, and so other servers can understand that a certain book is the same they want, we need to use common book identifiers. For modern books that will be the ISBN, for older books we'll have to append to our book data OCLC or LCC number. See [[d:Wikidata:Books task force|Wikidata:Books task force]] for more information.
*'''Metadata exporting''': Wikisource has an [[mw:Extension:Proofread Page#OAI-PMH|OAI-PMH beta export tool]] which uses the data in the index pages. It will have to be modified to be able to export metadata from Wikidata once the system is ready.
*'''Catalog browsing''': by creating a [[:w:OPDS|OPDS]] catalog (http://opds-spec.org), readers will be able to browse our book collection using apps like [http://www.megareader.net/ MegaReader], [http://www.pageturner-reader.org/ PageTurner], etc. Drafting stage.

===Increase organization and volunteer participation===
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What do you think about creating a '''[[meta:Wikisource User Group|Wikisource User Group]]'''?
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===More efficient way of working===
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*'''[[Wikisource:Book uploader|Customized Book Uploader]]''': It is not possible to undertake big modifications, but the current Commons uploader allows for some scripting that doesn't need code review. 
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*'''[[Wikisource:Wikisource common template set|Wikisource common template set]]''': If TEI is a wanted option, it would be interesting to use the same templates in all projects to keep the maintenance effort to a minimum. 
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*'''Author creation form''' (for linking/creating authors in Wikidata): It would be a form to create simultaneously an Author page and a Wikidata article. See WS-IT Author pages (edition mode) for some ideas about that kind of form.

===Work with other entities to the same goal===
*'''Measuring tools''': after contacting some organizations, some typical question that arise are: "how do volunteers know which books are more demanded for transcription?" "How do you measure the times a transcription has been downloaded or viewed?" We don't have tools to collect that kind of information (yet).
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*'''[[Wikisource:Open Library|Open Library]] partnership''': Ongoing conversations about a possible partnership between OL and WS.
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*'''Google Books dialogue''': there has been some dialogue with a Google engineer about ways of collaborating. Biggest stumbling block at the moment for running some experiments is that we don't have proper way of synchronizing data bases, for that it is necessary to have a book authoring in place (see above) and use OCLC or LCC identifiers as matching codes. Wikidata and the [[d:Wikidata:Books_task_force|Books task force]] are the key to solve this.
*'''OCLC connection''': Wikipedian in residence Max Klein has offered support to increase interaction with OCLC.
*'''GLAM parnerships''': what do GLAMs seek in Wikisource? What features and improvements do they want? How can we ease collaboration?
*'''Open Access''': Wikisource allows to host every document published under a free license. But it's not easy to deal with digital-born documents, as the software (Proofread extension) is made to transcribe digitized paper books. Can Wikisource become a more integrated digital library storing also free licensed scholarly articles, beyond PDFs? How to deal with HTML or PDF articles? [[:de:w:User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] has written a script to convert PubMed articles in HTML, and we could customize it for importing articles into Wikisource. 
  
===Write your own===
*'''Alignment tools''' for aligning different versions of a work in a given language.   Imagine having 3 versions of a Shakespeare work in English, each both paginated according to the original publication style, and connected to one another.  Alignment is useful both for scanning the same section of different works, and for eventually aligning comments or annotations across editions.
*'''Translation tools''' for generating free translations of original works, or aligning existing (partial and complete) translations into a wikisource text.  This involves both tools for translating, and tools for aligning translations -- similar to alignment tools within a single language. 
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