I have been doing transcription/proofreading work at Wikisource (http://en.wikisource.org/) for a period of time, and one of the works that I currently have started is William Bramwell Withers's "History of Ballarat" as it is a glaring omission of works available online. If there is interest in learning about how to wiki and in helping proofread this book then please either join in if you are comfortable with wikis, or email me if you want some help. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:The_History_of_Ballarat.djvu * * * * As background, Wikisource takes scanned works that are available, grabs the scan (get it into an OCR'd text layer in djvu format) and uploads it. We can then extract the text layer and proofread against the image, and then pull the text together into a book. Some of the other works that I have made available or am still working on for Victoria are: * An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=An_account_of_a_voyage_to_establish_a_colony_at_Port_Philip_in_Bass%27s_Strait * The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Captain_Matthew_Flinders,_R.N. * Victoria: with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong (incomplete) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Victoria:_with_a_description_of_its_principal_cities,_Melbourne_and_Geelong * The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (well incomplete) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography To me the work is like the early RootsWeb days of a community and people contributing to bring things online. It is one of my current passions and you can join projects, or start your own. If anyone wants more detail about Wikisource, then similarly drop me a line or if you know me, then give me a ring. Heck, if you know me you can give me a ring and say hello anyway. ;-) Regards, Andrew http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Billinghurst