Nice work. Good to hear such news.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp@gmail.com
wrote:
Very interesting. Congrats!
2013/7/1 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Hi all,
Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the Canadian Copyright Collection, 1895-1924, covering photographs deposited for copyright registration in Canada during this period. There's currently about 2,000 photographs, many of which are composites of multiple images stuck together; all are available as full-resolution TIFFs and JPEGs.
There's more files still trickling up - including some interesting aerial photographs, panoramas, and a collection of official photographs from WWI - but almost all of the "general" images are now online, and we're now just adding the oddities. Including the official photographs, this will total around 4,000 works. Please do take a look
- there's some marvellous material in there.
WMF: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/picturing-canada/ (in English and French; translation by Benoit Rochon) BL: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/07/happy-canada-day.html Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picturing_Canada
Thanks to Wikimedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies for funding this, and to Phil Hatfield at the British Library for championing the collection!
Andrew.
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