Just discovered the Commons project-site, too. Good to break down the
massive amount of unsorted material in countries first. Could help to
address interested editors quicker.
There’s been quite a lot of discussion of this on the
cultural-partners
mailing list (
https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners).
As a result of that, Tom Morris has set up a working page on Commons at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curat…
Thanks,
Mike
On 15 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jens Best <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why
Flickr was preferred
instead of Commons.
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/
2013/12/15 Jens Best <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de>
> Thanks for the news.
>
> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the
British
> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia
Commons? Maybe it has to do
> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
>
> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
>
> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
>
> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan
to
> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to
help
> describe what the images portray. Our
intention is to use this data to
> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the
content."
>
>
>
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jens
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
>>
>> Quote from full announcement
>>>
>>>
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
>>
>> We have released over a million
>>
images<http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary>onto Flickr Commons
>> for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images
>>> were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books
digitised
>>> by Microsoft<
>>
http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century…
who
>> then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release
>>> them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a
>> startling
>>> mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful
>>> illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters,
>>> colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more
>> that
>>> even we are not aware of.
>>
>>
>> Flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
>> Example of image
>>> Example of all images from a book
>>>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292
>>> Stuff for coders
https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory
>>>
>>> So... :-)
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