Forwarding on request. Nemo-BEIC -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [cultural-partners] Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC) Data: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:26:20 +0200 Mittente: marcok Hi to all, I’m the Wikipedian in residence at the digital library of Fondazione BEIC, Milan, Italy. In the last days we at BEIC are uploading almost the entire photo archive of a notable Italian photographer, Paolo Monti, counting 15.000 images. The whole archive was acquired by Fondazione BEIC in 2008. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Paolo_Monti For what I know, this is the biggest donation of images in one shot ever made in Italy. It’s also the first time that a digital archive from a famous photographer is almost completely uploaded into Commons. This notable result was possible thanks to the long-lasting collaboration between BEIC and Wikimedia Italia, started in 2014, and also thanks to the technical assistance of Federico Leva aka Nemo, the previous WiR at BEIC, now GLAM specialist at Wikimedia Italia. The photos of the Paolo Monti archive represent a variety of subjects (art, events, architecture, people, portraits, nature, artistic nudes, experimental) and were shot since 1950s to 1980s. Many of them are B/W, but there are also many fascinating colourful artistic/experimental pictures. We are now beginning to work on: * fixing categories (often translating the basic original italian keywords into english Commons categories) and providing a more detailed categorization * inserting useful images into Wikipedia articles (in italian, english and other languages) * selecting the best photos to candidate them as "featured pictures” in Wikimedia Commons (only those with 2 Megapixel or more). Please help us, this is a huge work! If you have any other ideas on how the images may be used, let us know! Thank you, Marco Chemello Wikipedian in residence, Fondazione BEIC, Milan (also Wikipedian in residence at the Science Museum, Milan) See: http://www.beic.it/en/articles/digital-library https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC (main project page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIC http://www.beic.it/en/node/1969 (Fondo Paolo Monti - in Italian) _______________________________________________ Cultural-Partners mailing list Cultural-Partners(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for permission before forwarding emails off-list.