Alternatively, load the videos to Archive.org and wait for them to be recoded OGV. Then transfer the OGVs across to Commons. It's double handling, yes. But it's also wider distribution for reuse.
Can anyone tell me why Commons and Archive don't have a closer relationship?
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Peter, that would be great if you would use your inside-contacts. Much quicker and also probably more effective than a cold-call! Ideally they could pro-actively give us a bulk dump with the metadata that they specifically wish - it gives them a greater sense of having contributed to Wikimedia rather than just 'allowing' us to scrape the website. The other thing is that the videos would all need mp4 -> ogv conversion. This is not technically hard, but it is annoying. Perhaps you could see if there's someone you know inside the organisation who was responsible for that website who could help?
Sincerely, -Liam
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On 7 May 2014 09:39, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Liam,
I am currently working at CSIRO if that helps. Probably quickest to try getting in contact using the details at:
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/pages/contact/
If that doesn't work I will contact my local PR person to see what we can do to get a bulk dump somehow.
Cheers,
Peter
On 6 May 2014 10:24, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists, I read today on the Creative Commons Australia blog that CSIRIO's ScienceImage library has been re-licensed to CC-BY:
http://creativecommons.org.au/blog/2014/04/csiro-releases-scienceimage-archi...
[for non-Australians CSIRO is our national science/research institute].
This is a fabulous series of images, nearly all of which are useful in
WP
articles as they are taken for 'scientific' purposes which means they
are
easily usable as educational images. Take a look:
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/
There's also over 500 documentary video files
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/search/?tags=&keyword=&library=&...
Here are the subject areas they've divided things up into:
Animals birds fish marine life sheep Buildings laboratories radio telescopes Food fruits vegetables seafood Insects arachnids moths termites Landscapes deserts farms mountains People In the lab in the field Plants crops flowers trees Soil Science erosion mining soils Technology computers & computer equipment Textile wool and woollen products Transportation boats Equipment industrial equipment laboratories Fire bushfire fire management Water irrigation lakes rivers
Could someone on the GLAMWikiToolset users see if you can neatly extract these files to mass upload them to Commons? Equally, we could try to
contact
CSIRO directly?
-Liam
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