Good news about the Wellcome Library images. I spoke with Catherine Draycott this morning
by phone and she indicated that the CC-BY licensing was the first step in a process that
includes figuring out how to get their content into the Commons so that it can be used on
Wikipedia. She and a colleague have a meeting on Feb 3 with John Cummings (Wikipedia in
Residence at the Natural History Museum, London) and Daria Cybulska (WIkimediaUK) to
discuss this, and also to plan a possible edit-a-thon on Feb 26th.
I made sure to mention the GLAMToolSet work, which should (in theory) make it a lot easier
for GLAM organizations to bulk upload media and associated metadata. I was surprised to
learn this is already deployed to
commons.mediawiki.org but your account needs to be
enabled for you to see it. I’m not entirely sure if it has been used very much yet
though.
So, rather than confuse things further by having starting another channel of communication
I will bow out and let what Daria and John are doing take its course.
//Ed
On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Yes, I saw that, but thought perhaps they would be
interested. I wanted to at least float the idea.
//Ed
On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Katie Chan <ktc(a)ktchan.info> wrote:
On 22/01/2014 14:12, Edward Summers wrote:
d) think about how Wellcome's Wikipedia in
Residence [3] could help facilitate the upload
Does that sound like a reasonable way to proceed? If anyone else would like to be on the
call let me know. If there is a Commons veteran who has experience with bulk uploading and
is willing to work with the Wellcome Trust in a constructive way I’m willing to just tag
along on the call and let them take the reigns as it were.
....
That post while funded by the Wellcome Trust, is with Cancer Research UK, and targetted
at cancer-related content.
KTC
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