Thanks Peter, that would be great if you would use your inside-contacts.
Much quicker and also probably more effective than a cold-call!
Ideally they could pro-actively give us a bulk dump with the metadata that
they specifically wish - it gives them a greater sense of having
contributed to Wikimedia rather than just 'allowing' us to scrape the
website. The other thing is that the videos would all need mp4 -> ogv
conversion. This is not technically hard, but it is annoying.
Perhaps you could see if there's someone you know inside the organisation
who was responsible for that website who could help?
Sincerely,
-Liam
Peace, love & metadata
On 7 May 2014 09:39, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Liam,
I am currently working at CSIRO if that helps. Probably quickest to
try getting in contact using the details at:
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/pages/contact/
If that doesn't work I will contact my local PR person to see what we
can do to get a bulk dump somehow.
Cheers,
Peter
On 6 May 2014 10:24, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists,
I read today on the Creative Commons Australia blog that CSIRIO's
ScienceImage library has been re-licensed to CC-BY:
http://creativecommons.org.au/blog/2014/04/csiro-releases-scienceimage-arch…
[for non-Australians CSIRO is our national
science/research institute].
This is a fabulous series of images, nearly all of which are useful in WP
articles as they are taken for 'scientific' purposes which means they are
easily usable as educational images. Take a look:
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/
There's also over 500 documentary video files
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/search/?tags=&keyword=&library=&am…
Here are the subject areas they've divided things up into:
Animals birds fish marine life sheep
Buildings laboratories radio telescopes
Food fruits vegetables seafood
Insects arachnids moths termites
Landscapes deserts farms mountains
People In the lab in the field
Plants crops flowers trees
Soil Science erosion mining soils
Technology computers & computer equipment
Textile wool and woollen products
Transportation boats
Equipment industrial equipment laboratories
Fire bushfire fire management
Water irrigation lakes rivers
Could someone on the GLAMWikiToolset users see if you can neatly extract
these files to mass upload them to Commons? Equally, we could try to
contact
CSIRO directly?
-Liam
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
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