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.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curato...
Jens
2013/12/15 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net
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_Curato...
Thanks, Mike
On 15 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jens Best jens.best@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@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-fi...
Best regards,
Jens
2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com
Quote from full announcement
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-fi...
We have released over a million imageshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibraryonto 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
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
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