Hi All,
Just so you are up to date on this collaboration. The in person meeting
with the Trust last week has been focused on explaining and working out
ways in which the upload onto Commons can be done. We were explaining
upload tools and tools that can be used to measure the usage of images on
Wikimedia projects.
The action from that was for John Cummings to coordinate with Fae (who has
very kindly offered to help us) regarding the upload, possibly starting
with a pilot set of images. Wellcome's developers are based in London and
should be available to assist with some technical considerations - the
images' metadata sits in several databases and some work needs to be done
to get it all into one place for the upload.
Another consideration is that the set contains some orphan works which I
suppose will have to be weeded out.
The most significant aspect is of course the public domain vs CC-By
licence. John can correct me here, but the feeling was that Wellcome Trust
is committed to keeping the CC-By on these images and felt this is the most
appropriate licence for the whole set (which includes images of various
'initial licence' statuses).
Regards,
Daria
On 24 January 2014 15:54, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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.
> ....
>> [3]
https://cancer-research-uk-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-External/brand-2/candi…
>>
>
> That post while funded by the Wellcome Trust, is with Cancer Research
UK, and
targetted at cancer-related content.
>
> KTC
>
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