Hi Rubén,
I would be able to help you use the GLAMwiki Toolset if you would like. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset
The first thing you need is to get the user-permission for the account you will be using to do the upload. The instructions for setting up are here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset#Instructions
Step 1 is to create a user-account here: http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page and ask for the user-permission on Beta: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GWToolset#Asking_for_user_righ... This is where you can do your testing.
We can then work on step 2 (whitelisting the GLAM's domain) and 3 (exporting their metadata in XML) but we can do that offlist ;-)
By the way - when you say 'their files are not in public domain', do you mean that the GLAMs are going to share their own copyrighted images under a free license? In which case - that's great, congratulations. However, if they're not - then you'll need to negotiate that first, before we even start with the technical side of uploading.
Sincerely, -Liam / Wittylama
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On 8 September 2015 at 22:10, Rubén Ojeda rodelarwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone!
From yesterday until January 7, 2016, Wikimedia Spain enters three state museums, the Museum of Romanticism, the Museo del Traje (Costume Museum) and the National Archaeological Museum, where I´ll work as wikipedian in residence.
Besides promoting the Wikimedia projects in the three institutions, it will be carried out various activities open to the public, like edit-a-thons and training sessions, aimed to explain how Wikipedia works and generate content related to the museums and their collections: the nineteenth century in Spain, fashion, ethnography and archeology. Another highlight will be the donation of multimedia files (documents, pictures or recordings) under a free license to Wikimedia Commons, in order to illustrate contents of the various Wikimedia projects.
The Museum of Romanticism has cataloged more than 16,000 museum pieces. It offers collections of paintings, miniatures, furniture, decorative arts, prints, drawings and photographs collections, which offer a broad panorama of the arts during the Romantic era in Spain. The Costume Museum has collections dedicated to fashion, costumes and ethnography, with a collection of over 170,000 pieces and documents; these collections date from the Middle Ages to the contemporary fashion of Spain. The National Archaeological Museum is, since 1867, the leading Spanish institution in the preservation of historical pieces. Its permanent collection includes over 15,000 items from Prehistory, Early history, Roman Spain, Greece, Egypt and the Near East, Middle Ages and Modern Age.
In relation to the uploading of files to Wikimedia Commons, what tool do you recommend me to use? (their files are not in public domain).
Best,
-- Rubén Ojeda | Wikimedia España rubenojeda@wikimedia.es | @rubojeda https://twitter.com/rubojeda
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