Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
instead of Commons.
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…
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/
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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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.