Nice work.
Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that
most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a
good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer!
I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the
XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is
little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization
being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are
put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want
to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you
can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The
simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read
up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for
searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them
between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]
Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is
approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some
volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding
geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to
check these by hand.
Links
1. GLAM Dashboard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard
2. Advanced Commons searching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
3. VisualFileChange tool
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js
4. Map workshop
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop
Thanks,
Fae
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On 22 July 2015 at 16:54, Olaf Janssen <Olaf.Janssen@kb.nl> wrote:
...
> Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100 images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.
> Each atlas has its own category
> · Category:Atlas Schoemaker (2579 images)
> · Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen (446 images)
> · Category:Atlas_Beudeker (133 images)
...
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