Fae, thanks for the suggestions and pointing out some tools & groups I was not yet
aware of, I'll go and check them out. Yesterday I happened to stumble on the
VisualFileChange tool, which I find highly useful for post-upload cleanup &
housekeeping.
Best regards,
Olaf
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:44:48 +0100
From: Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [GLAM] [Image donations - Koninklijke Bibliotheek] Three
historic atlasses via GLAMwiki-toolset
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Nice work.
Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that most Wikimedia
Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a good test of systems, especially the
in-built zoom viewer!
I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the XML files that feed
into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is little harm in getting on with a batch
upload without categorization being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and
resources) are put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may
want to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you can easily
track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The simplest recommendation I make for
volunteer categorizers, is to read up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the
"insource:" option for searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or
moving them between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]
Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is approaching the
community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some volunteers would like to suggest a
best practice for adding geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer
backlog to check these by hand.
Links
1. GLAM Dashboard
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard
2. Advanced Commons searching
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
3. VisualFileChange tool
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js
4. Map workshop
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop
Thanks,
Fae
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