Hi!
Just and idea for GLAM projects...
I watched recently "World War 1 in Colour" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_1_in_Colour). It's very impressive to see quite a lot of filming from this period.
DVD credit The Imperial War Museum London for original black and white footage. May be Wikimedia UK charter could try to arrange access for public domain materials too? Sure, other charters could try the same with their countries archives.
Eugene.
We've not had direct contact with the Imperial War Museum, but it is something that I've had on the back of my mind for a while. The question in my mind is, is there a group of people that has specific interest in this content, and if so should this be made more of a priority?
Mike Peel WMUK
On 21 Feb 2010, at 15:52, Eugene Zelenko wrote:
Hi!
Just and idea for GLAM projects...
I watched recently "World War 1 in Colour" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_1_in_Colour). It's very impressive to see quite a lot of filming from this period.
DVD credit The Imperial War Museum London for original black and white footage. May be Wikimedia UK charter could try to arrange access for public domain materials too? Sure, other charters could try the same with their countries archives.
Eugene.
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Hoi, The big problem is the size of the material .. The video created by the New York chapter can be found on Commons in a REALLY small window. Nice that it is there but it is hardly usable.
There is a military project in many wikipedias certainly in the English language one. They would really appreciate it.. In a similar way, we may be able getting material from the "politionele acties" in Indonesia ... I am not into this really and given my expectation that there may be movies in it, I have kept quiet on it. Thanks, GerardM
On 28 February 2010 12:52, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
We've not had direct contact with the Imperial War Museum, but it is something that I've had on the back of my mind for a while. The question in my mind is, is there a group of people that has specific interest in this content, and if so should this be made more of a priority?
Mike Peel WMUK
On 21 Feb 2010, at 15:52, Eugene Zelenko wrote:
Hi!
Just and idea for GLAM projects...
I watched recently "World War 1 in Colour" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_1_in_Colour). It's very impressive to see quite a lot of filming from this period.
DVD credit The Imperial War Museum London for original black and white footage. May be Wikimedia UK charter could try to arrange access for public domain materials too? Sure, other charters could try the same with their countries archives.
Eugene.
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On 28 February 2010 11:52, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
We've not had direct contact with the Imperial War Museum, but it is something that I've had on the back of my mind for a while. The question in my mind is, is there a group of people that has specific interest in this content, and if so should this be made more of a priority?
Mike Peel WMUK
Military history WikiProject. Of their sub projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Maritime... would probably have a significant interest.
At the present time British Military history tends to be illustrated by museum pics, stuff from the German archives, stuff from the US, very low res pics acquired from the IWM websites and rescans of images from the IWM published by third parties.
On the other hand from what I recall of dealing with the IWM way back they like to charge big time.