Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons

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. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>