Hi everyone, i'm pleased to announce that i've completed an upload to Commons of around 2500 images in high resolution (2400px) related to the overseas history of the Netherlands. The upload contains a trove of maps from the Dutch East and West India Companies, ground plan of colonial fortifications, bird’s eye views of landmarks and harbours throughout the world by Johannes Vingboons, and beautiful, often coloured, prints from printed journals of voyages and expeditions. Depicted are places all over the world where the Dutch were active, including Indonesia, West Africa, South Africa, East Asia, "New Amsterdam" (New York) and Surinam.
The website contains over 6000 images, but for this specific upload i've focused on the 2500 images from the collections of the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and the National Archive (Nationaal Archief) because i'm a Wikipedian in Residence for those institutions.
One of the reasons why i think this upload is interesting is because the metadata is of high quality. Every image is extensively described in both Dutch and English, properly dated, contains author information and most of them are geolocated. For example, here's a picture of Banda Neira, a small settlement in Indonesia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6165-NA_Bird%27s_eye_view_of_Ban...
All images are in the public domain, but for this upload all the metadata was released under a CC-Zero license as well.
Some technical details: i didn't use the GWToolset but the good old Pywikibot. All the metadata of the original XML dumps, and a 'translated json' format is available in the source of every image page, more or less the same as how the GWT does it.
More information about this upload can be found at the following places: * Project page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Atlas_of_Mutual_Heritage * Category with all images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_Atlas_of_Mutual_Herit... * Python source of the data mapper and upload bot on Github: https://github.com/hay/pywikibot-hay/tree/master/scripts/amh * Atlas of Mutual Heritage: http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl
Kind regards, -- Hay
Wow great stuff Husky !!
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 1:12 PM, Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone, i'm pleased to announce that i've completed an upload to Commons of around 2500 images in high resolution (2400px) related to the overseas history of the Netherlands. The upload contains a trove of maps from the Dutch East and West India Companies, ground plan of colonial fortifications, bird’s eye views of landmarks and harbours throughout the world by Johannes Vingboons, and beautiful, often coloured, prints from printed journals of voyages and expeditions. Depicted are places all over the world where the Dutch were active, including Indonesia, West Africa, South Africa, East Asia, "New Amsterdam" (New York) and Surinam.
The website contains over 6000 images, but for this specific upload i've focused on the 2500 images from the collections of the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and the National Archive (Nationaal Archief) because i'm a Wikipedian in Residence for those institutions.
One of the reasons why i think this upload is interesting is because the metadata is of high quality. Every image is extensively described in both Dutch and English, properly dated, contains author information and most of them are geolocated. For example, here's a picture of Banda Neira, a small settlement in Indonesia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6165-NA_Bird%27s_eye_view_of_Ban...
All images are in the public domain, but for this upload all the metadata was released under a CC-Zero license as well.
Some technical details: i didn't use the GWToolset but the good old Pywikibot. All the metadata of the original XML dumps, and a 'translated json' format is available in the source of every image page, more or less the same as how the GWT does it.
More information about this upload can be found at the following places: * Project page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Atlas_of_Mutual_Heritage * Category with all images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_Atlas_of_Mutual_Herit... * Python source of the data mapper and upload bot on Github: https://github.com/hay/pywikibot-hay/tree/master/scripts/amh * Atlas of Mutual Heritage: http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl
Kind regards, -- Hay
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This is really very nice! Thank you for sharing =)
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:48 PM, BOBBY SHABANGU bobbyshabangu@yahoo.com wrote:
Wow great stuff Husky !!
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 1:12 PM, Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone, i'm pleased to announce that i've completed an upload to Commons of around 2500 images in high resolution (2400px) related to the overseas history of the Netherlands. The upload contains a trove of maps from the Dutch East and West India Companies, ground plan of colonial fortifications, bird’s eye views of landmarks and harbours throughout the world by Johannes Vingboons, and beautiful, often coloured, prints from printed journals of voyages and expeditions. Depicted are places all over the world where the Dutch were active, including Indonesia, West Africa, South Africa, East Asia, "New Amsterdam" (New York) and Surinam.
The website contains over 6000 images, but for this specific upload i've focused on the 2500 images from the collections of the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and the National Archive (Nationaal Archief) because i'm a Wikipedian in Residence for those institutions.
One of the reasons why i think this upload is interesting is because the metadata is of high quality. Every image is extensively described in both Dutch and English, properly dated, contains author information and most of them are geolocated. For example, here's a picture of Banda Neira, a small settlement in Indonesia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6165-NA_Bird%27s_eye_view_of_Ban...
All images are in the public domain, but for this upload all the metadata was released under a CC-Zero license as well.
Some technical details: i didn't use the GWToolset but the good old Pywikibot. All the metadata of the original XML dumps, and a 'translated json' format is available in the source of every image page, more or less the same as how the GWT does it.
More information about this upload can be found at the following places:
- Project page on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Atlas_of_Mutual_Heritage
- Category with all images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_Atlas_of_Mutual_Herit...
- Python source of the data mapper and upload bot on Github:
https://github.com/hay/pywikibot-hay/tree/master/scripts/amh
- Atlas of Mutual Heritage: http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl
Kind regards, -- Hay
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