Andrew Gray schrieb:
2008/12/3 Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com:
Dear Commonists,
Starting on Thursday Dec 4, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100.000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and are part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archive.
Oh, this is excellent news - 100,000! Is there any chance you could give us a better idea about the general scope of this content?
Habe a look: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive
I'm particularly curious as to:
- what periods are covered; is it heavily post-1945, or is there
substantial earlier content?
Some. don't know about "substantial". Putting the metadata in a nice db to answer that sort of question is on the TODO list http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv/Todo.
- will we get a lot of illustrations of individuals?
Yes, but not so many portraits. More the journalistic style.
- are there any particular thematic collections?
Not that I can tell. At least not in a way readily accessible. It's mostly clustered around events.
-- daniel