Andrew Gray schrieb:
2008/12/3 Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com>om>:
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