User:Laura1822

Original plans
My pilot project of the first volume of Ackermann's Repository is underway. Feel free to dive in and help out. 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
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

 * Proofread of the Month/little works n/a?

Periodicals

 * Index:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1.djvu: Needs proofreading, have to learn how to do musical examples and other illustrations.
 * Notes and Queries
 * Index:Compendium of US Copyright Office Practices (1973).pdf: validation
 * Index:Popular Science Monthly Volume 50.djvu
 * Index:The Annual Register, or a view of the History, Politics and Literature for the year 1802.djvu
 * Index:The Gentleman's Magazine - New Series, Volume 6.pdf
 * first volume of Ackermann's Repository: my pilot project for working on early 19th century periodicals

Literature

 * Austen List of works, showing progress for validating/proofreading.
 * Index:Austen - Emma, vol. I, 1816.djvu: Validated, but needs to be re-validated:  requires careful reading to correct punctuation, possibly from copying/pasting text from another source.  Errors on every page of the first chapter (except the first), mostly in the form of added commas, but also changes to colons/semicolons, dashes, periods/end of sentence/capitalization, archaic spellings, and even the occasional word substitution.  Look out for capitalization and italics.
 * Index:Austen - Pride and Prejudice, third edition, 1817.djvu: Although already validated, requires another careful reading to correct punctuation, ditto Emma, above.
 * Index:The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2.djvu: first part of Dumas's Ten Years Later
 * Index:King Solomon's Mines (1907).djvu
 * Index:A Little Princess.djvu
 * Index:The Secret Garden.djvu
 * Index:Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1st edition), Volume 1 (Wuthering Heights, Volume 1).djvu: first-pass proofreading
 * Index:Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1st edition), Volume 2 (Wuthering Heights, Volume 2).djvu: first-pass proofreading
 * Index:Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1st edition), Volume 3 (Agnes Grey).djvu: validation

Catholic

 * Portal:Roman Catholicism
 * Category:Roman Catholic Church
 * WikiProject Catholic Encyclopedia Upgrade
 * Index:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 1.djvu: Needs proofreading, text a little difficult to read.

Catholic misc.

 * Index:Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent Buckley.djvu: needs validation
 * Index:The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII.djvu (available elsewhere individually, also incompletely indexed (transcluded?) here at Author:Leo XIII and Category:Catholic Church Encycicals)
 * Index:True and False Infallibility of Popes.pdf
 * Index:Petri Privilegium - Manning.djvu
 * Index:The True Story of the Vatican Council.djvu: needs validation
 * Europe And The Faith (1920) by Hilaire Belloc: Like some of the literature above, appears to have been copied/pasted from a text-only source, lacks image-based source/Index;  sloppy formatting (italics, capitalization, etc.)  Suspect that much of Belloc's ouevre suffers from this same problem.

Catechisms

 * Index:Catechismoftrent.djvu Catechism of the Council of Trent (1829)
 * File:A Short Christian Doctrine - Robert Bellarmine - English translation, 1633.pdf on Commons
 * Index:Anecdotescatechi00spiruoft.djvu Anecdotes and Examples Illustrating The Catholic Catechism by Spirago (1904)
 * Index:Completecatechis00deharich.djvu 	A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion by Deharbe (1912)

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

 * Index:Catholic Thoughts on the Bible and Theology.djvu
 * Index:Moraltheology.djvu
 * Index:Duns Scotus, defender of the Immaculate Conception (1955).djvu: short, needs validation

Liturgy

 * https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Missale_Romanum_1496.djvu at Latin WS
 * https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Missale_Romanum_1862.djvu at Latin WS
 * File:Rituale romanum 1617.pdf on Commons, not on Latin WS
 * File:PL Mszał rzymski 1935.djvu Latin-Polish missal 1935, on Commons, not on Latin or Polish WS


 * Index:The Roman Breviary Bute 1908 - vol. 1.djvu
 * Index:The Roman Breviary Bute 1908 - vol. 2.djvu
 * Index:The Roman Breviary Bute 1908 - vol. 3.djvu
 * Index:The Roman Breviary Bute 1908 - vol. 4.djvu


 * Index:Littleofficeofbl00newy.djvu Little Office of the BVM (1915)


 * Index:Rite of Consecration of a Catholic Bishop.djvu: short, needs validation
 * Index:The service of high mass for the dead on the day of burial.djvu: short, needs proofreading


 * Index:Goffinesdevoutin00goffuoft.djvu 1896 Epistles & Gospels


 * The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (First Edition).djvu 1917
 * The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (Second Edition–New Impression).djvu 1920

Prayer

 * Raccolta
 * Index:Raccoltaorcolle00raccgoog.djvu 1857
 * Index:TheRaccolta 1878
 * Index:TheManualOfIndulgences 1878 (another)
 * Index:Raccoltaorcolle00stjgoog.djvu 1880
 * Index:Newraccoltaorco00religoog.djvu 1903
 * File:TheNewRaccolta.djvu 1903 (not on WS)
 * Index:Theraccoltaorcol00unknuoft.djvu 1910
 * Index:Blessedbegodcomp00call.pdf 1925 includes Order of Mass (Latin/English)
 * Index:BlessedSacramentBook.pdf 1913 Lesance; indulgenced prayers


 * Index:PrecesGertrudianae.djvu 1861
 * Index:Purgatorianconso00queluoft.djvu 1868
 * Index:TheDailyPrayerBook.pdf 1882
 * Index:The Catholic prayer book.djvu 1883
 * Index:Manualofprayersf00cath.djvu 1888 (Third Plenary Council of Baltimore) includes Order of Mass (Latin/English) and a short breviary (LOB?) as well as rites like Baptism
 * Index:Stalphonsuspraye00ligu.djvu 1888 Liguori (file or Index broken?)
 * Index:TheCatholicsPocketPrayerBook.djvu 1899
 * Index:LittleBookOfPrayersFromOldEnglish.djvu 1900 (short)


 * Index:KeyOfHeaven.djvu 1901
 * Index:Prayerbookforrel00lasa 0.djvu 1904  Lasance
 * Index:MyPrayerBookHappinessInGoodness.djvu 1908
 * Index:Prayersmeditatio01thom.djvu 1908 Kempis
 * Index:MaryHelpOfChristians.djvu 1909
 * Index:Withgodbookofpra00las.djvu 1911  Lasance
 * Index:Thelordsprayeran00chaluoft.djvu 1915 (short)
 * Index:Momentswithconso00thom.djvu 1918 Kempis (medium)


 * Index:Hamman Prayers.pdf (not on WS; deleted on Commons?)


 * Index:Medivalhymnsand00nealgoog.djvu 1867  medieval hymns and sequences
 * Index:Lyracatholicacaswall.djvu 1851  hymns and sequences from the breviary and missal, and others

See also: Bobdole2021's list on his user page

Doctors of the Church

 * Portal:Doctors of the Church
 * Category:Doctors of the Church
 * Index:A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church Volume 2.djvu (Pusey)
 * Index:Saint Theresa of Avila (Gilman 1889).djvu ("Famous Women" series)
 * Index:Summa Theologica (2nd rev. ed.) - Volume 1.djvu (available elsewhere in epub)
 * Index:Thoughts of the servant of God, Thérèse of the Child Jesus; the Little flower of Jesus, Carmelite of the monastery of Lisieux, 1873-1897 (IA thoughtsofservan00thrs).pdf   (available elsewhere in epub)


 * Index:The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII.djvu

Liguori

 * Index:Complete ascetical works of St Alphonsus v6.djvu
 * Index:PassionDeathOfJesusChristV5.djvu
 * Index:Thecompleteascet02liguuoft.djvu
 * Index:AceticLibraryV2PreparationForDeath.djvu
 * Index:History of Heresies (Liguori).djvu
 * Index:Sermons for all the Sundays in the year.djvu
 * Index:Stalphonsuspraye00ligu.djvu 1888 Liguori (file or Index broken?)  Prayer book

Rosary

 * Index:How-to-say-the-rosary.djvu (4-page booklet, complete)
 * Index:TheRosaryItsHistory.djvu (32-page ditto)
 * Index:LittleBookOfTheMostHolyChildJesus.djvu (112-page prayer book for children, includes Rosary, complete)
 * Most prayer books have a chapter or section on the rosary

Hymnals and Gregorian Chant

 * Index:The Roman Hymnal.djvu

Miscellaneous

 * Subpages
 * my page at Latin WS
 * Template:Bar/testcases
 * User:Zoeannl/Project guideline/Proofreader’s Guide