-- Apologies for cross-posting --
Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB)
donated<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Koninklijke_Bibliothe… over
3100 images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.
Each atlas has its own category
* Category:Atlas
Schoemaker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Schoemaker&… (2579
images)
*
Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category…
(446 images)
*
Category:Atlas_Beudeker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atla…
(133 images)
This was the first time the KB used the GLAMwiki-upload
tool<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset>et>, which can upload
large numbers of images batchwise. This tools has been used by many GLAMs, including the
Institute for Sound &
Vision<http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201407/first-batch-upload-wikimedia-commons-using-gwtoolset>
ant the Peace
Palace<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Peace_…ry>.
So far over
430.000<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GWToolset_Batch_Uplo… images
have been donated worldwide using this tool.
The three atlases were digitized in the late '90s and put online on the Memory of the
Netherlands<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/instellingen/koninklijke_bibliotheek>
website. This has been the source of the current donations.
* Atlas
Schoemaker<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/schoemaker> displays
2579 images of topographical drawings, descriptions and prints of Dutch towns, villages
and hamlets in the early 18th century. It was named after Andries
Schoemaker<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Andries_Schoemaker> (1660-1735), an
Amsterdam textile merchant whose passion was collecting historical and topographic
information on towns and villages, and churches and castles in the Netherlands.
* Atlas Van der
Hagen<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/atlassen/over_de_atlassen>
from around 1690 contains topographical drawings and prints from across the globe in
various formats, beautifully colored and decorated with gold. This relatively unknown
atlas from the KB consists of four volumes bound in parchment, each holding approx. 100
pages. They were collected by the Amsterdam merchant and map collector Dirk van der
Hagen<http://www.kb.nl/en/themes/maps/more-atlases/dirk-van-der-hagens-atlas>
* The Beudeker
collection<http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/maps/beudcoll/beudekercols.html>
from The British Library consists of 24 volumes and is named after the rich Amsterdam
merchant Christoffel
Beudeker<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel_Beudeker>er>.
Volume 21 (from around 1750) contains 133 images devoted to the northern and southern
Netherlands<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/atlassen/over_de_atlassen>.
This is the volume donated to Commons.
Uploading the images is just the start, in the next couple of weeks the KB will work on
* Expanding WP-articles about the atlases themselves, the creators/collectors
(Andries and Gerrit Schoemaker, Cornelis Pronk, Abraham de Haen, Dirk van der Hagen etc)
in multiple language versions
* Creating / expanding related Wikidata-items
* Promotional activities outside the community
The KB would like to invited all Wikip/m/edians to reuse the images as widely as possible,
which could include
* Using them in WP-articles (no-brainer)
* Further (sub)categorization of the images. A subdivision into country/city/place
names would make sense, see for instance this list of place
names<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collectieindex/schoemaker/SCHOE01.index.locaties>
for Schoemaker. Unfortunately it was not possible to do automatic subcategorization via
the GLAMwiki-upload tool.
Including these 3 atlases the KB has now released 7 historic atlases, see this
overview<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Koninklijke_Biblioth…ek>.
With kind regards
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data coordinator
Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
olaf.janssen@kb.nl<mailto:olaf.janssen@kb.nl>
+31 (0)70 3140 388
@ookgezellig
www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL<http://www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL…
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