The document summarizes a pilot project in Chile to digitize historical texts and make them openly accessible online. It discusses the digitization of articles from the unfinished 1948 Encyclopedia Chilena project and sessions of Chile's legislative bodies from 1810 to 1845. Over 1,000 encyclopedia articles and 21,532 pages from the legislative sessions were digitized using optical character recognition and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. The project was considered successful and the organization plans to expand it at a larger scale in the future to make more of Chile's historical heritage openly available.

1. Historical heritage of Chile in Wikisource: EnciclopediaChilena & CuerposLejislativos Osmar Valdebenito Gaete RencontresWikmédia 2010

2. EnciclopediaChilena Project proposed by Jorge Ugarte Vial, Director of the Library of the Chilean Congress. It started to be developed in 1948. In 1964, it was expected to be released … but, in 1971 it was finally cancelled.

3. Value of the Encyclopedia Folklore: Unknown or currently disappeared traditions explained. Geography: Extended cartography and local toponymy not available. Historical value of the XX Century vision in Chile.

4. Value of the Encyclopedia

5. Pilot project Objectives: “Release EnciclopediaChilenain the most open way possible” “Promote the formation of communities based in the share of knowledge”

8. Pilot project Digitalization of 1,029 articles (4,935 pages): Folklore History Political parties Optical character recognition of the pages. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as DjVu files. [[Category:Enciclopedia Chilena]] Articles created in es.wikisource.org using ProofReader. [http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Chilena]

10. El primer ministerio estuvo formado pur R mon Luis Irarrázaval, (v) como ministro riel Interior; Manuel K5enn:*fo, (v) antinuofilopolita, en ha- cienda; ocupó 1 cartera de Justicia, Culto e Instrucción Pública, Manuel (v) y 13 dB Guerea el en ral José Haría de la Cruz; (v) sin embargo, éste último no ocupo su car:,a por lo que debió se reemplazado por José S ntiago Aldunate (U). La única novedad en el personal de este ministerio sobre loa hnmbres del gobierno de Prieto, era el reintegro a la política de Manuel $en- glfo

12. Pilot project Digitalization of 1,029 articles (4,935 pages): Folklore History Political parties Optical character recognition of the pages. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as DjVu files. [[Category:Enciclopedia Chilena]] Articles created in es.wikisource.org using ProofReader. [http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Chilena]

14. Pilot project Digitalization of 1,029 articles (4,935 pages): Folklore History Political parties Optical character recognition of the pages. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as DjVu files. [[Category:Enciclopedia Chilena]] Articles created in es.wikisource.org using ProofReader. [http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Chilena]

16. Pilot project Digitalization of 1,029 articles (4,935 pages): Folklore History Political parties Optical character recognition of the pages. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as DjVu files. [[Category:Enciclopedia Chilena]] Articles created in es.wikisource.org using ProofReader. [http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Chilena]

19. EnciclopediaChilena Although all the pages of the pilot were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, only a few articles have been created in Wikisource. BCN has considered EnciclopediaChilena a very successful project, so they decided to realize a new project in a large scale.

20. Sesiones de los Cuerpos Lejislativos de la República de Chile Hansards of the Legislative Bodies of Chile between 1810 and 1845. 37 volumes 21,532 pages. Bases of the current legislation and contains historical value about the foundation of the country.

21. Sesiones de los CuerposLejislativos Staff

24. Impact

25. Impact

26. Future: Symbiosis

28. Thanks! ¡Gracias! Merci! Contact me: osmar@wikimediachile.cl Thisworkisreleasedundertheterms of CreativeCommonsAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License