I met someone from Carl Zeiss Microscopy while speaking (in my capacity as Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry) at a science conference in thsi summer, and discussed with them the possibility of using some of the images from their slides, on Wikipedia.
After further discussion, the company have now open-licensed a number of images, with the promise of more to follow.
I've uploaded most of the images to:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_donated_by_Carl_Zeiss_Mic...
and they include modern and vintage Zeiss microscopes, as well as portraits of people associated with Zeiss, educatonal posters, and more, Please make use of them
That's a great initiative, Andy!
I live in Jena, where Carl Zeiss (the person) spent most of his life, and where optics plays a key role in daily activities, largely due to Carl Zeiss (the company) and the ecosystem of suppliers, users and research institutes that formed around it, as well as the people working for them (almost ten percent of the city's population). In fact, I am looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarium_Jena out of my window while typing these lines, and Zeiss materials are a great way to connect to other GLAM activities here, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Museum_Jena https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyletisches_Museum and lots more in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kulturdenkmal_in_Jena .
So while I do not normally edit around optics, history, places or companies, I am available to assist others in making best use of these materials, or in contextualizing them. I shall also be happy to join forces with local Wikimedians or to meet Zeiss people here should that be useful in moving these things forward.
Cheers, d.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I met someone from Carl Zeiss Microscopy while speaking (in my capacity as Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry) at a science conference in thsi summer, and discussed with them the possibility of using some of the images from their slides, on Wikipedia.
After further discussion, the company have now open-licensed a number of images, with the promise of more to follow.
I've uploaded most of the images to:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_donated_by_Carl_Zeiss_Mic...
and they include modern and vintage Zeiss microscopes, as well as portraits of people associated with Zeiss, educatonal posters, and more, Please make use of them
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
Thanks Daniel,
My contacts were with people in the UK (initially) and then Munich, but I'll pass on your kind offer next time I'm in touch with them.
Might you be able to add coordinates for the images of places, please?
I'm pleased to see that one of the images has already been nominated for featured status on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:...
On 14 December 2015 at 23:13, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com wrote:
That's a great initiative, Andy!
I live in Jena, where Carl Zeiss (the person) spent most of his life, and where optics plays a key role in daily activities, largely due to Carl Zeiss (the company) and the ecosystem of suppliers, users and research institutes that formed around it, as well as the people working for them (almost ten percent of the city's population). In fact, I am looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarium_Jena out of my window while typing these lines, and Zeiss materials are a great way to connect to other GLAM activities here, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Museum_Jena https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyletisches_Museum and lots more in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kulturdenkmal_in_Jena .
So while I do not normally edit around optics, history, places or companies, I am available to assist others in making best use of these materials, or in contextualizing them. I shall also be happy to join forces with local Wikimedians or to meet Zeiss people here should that be useful in moving these things forward.
Cheers, d.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I met someone from Carl Zeiss Microscopy while speaking (in my capacity as Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry) at a science conference in thsi summer, and discussed with them the possibility of using some of the images from their slides, on Wikipedia.
After further discussion, the company have now open-licensed a number of images, with the promise of more to follow.
I've uploaded most of the images to:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_donated_by_Carl_Zeiss_Mic...
and they include modern and vintage Zeiss microscopes, as well as portraits of people associated with Zeiss, educatonal posters, and more, Please make use of them
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
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