A disappointing update about this initiative: it sounds like FOBL is having
second thoughts about this initiative. If they reconsidered, we'd still be
interested in working with them.
Pine
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jonnymorgan.esq(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Cascadia could partner with UW Library Digital Archives
> <http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/specialcollections>.
> They
> have facilities to scan a lot of images, and a supply of student labor. And
> they have been receptive to the idea of CC-BY-ing parts of their collection
> in the past.
>
> - J
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could you describe briefly how the metadata on paper can be related to
> any
> > digital file?
> >
> > Wikimedia Commons could be a file host. If they want to see the precedent
> > of file hosting by institutions and the resulting reach of the media
> > shared, then
> > <http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/>
> > BaGLAMa is the best demonstration that I know. Of particular interest is
> > "Total views in all times", which shows how many times anyone has
loaded
> a
> > Wikipedia article containing one of the used images. Even rather small
> > institutions find good reach on Wikipedia.
> >
> > Structuring metadata in Wikimedia Commons remains difficult and there is
> no
> > standard way to do it. One of the more thoughtful attempts to match
> > metadata with a set of files in a mass upload happened with a media
> > donation from the Wellcome Trust. Here is an example file -
> > <
> >
> >
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_sides_to_a_question_Wellcome_F0…
> > >
> >
> > I like the idea of this project. I would join anyone else in discussing
> it.
> >
> > yours,
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Dennis Bratland <
> > dennis.bratland(a)gmail.com>
>
wrote:
> >
> > > I had a really exciting meeting with Susan Connole of Friends of the
> > > Ballard Locks FOBL today. I got some books and papers outlining the
> > > construction history, and I saw some of the boxes of thousands of old
> > > photos they have. All phases of the construction of the locks, all
> sorts
> > of
> > > historic events. They have digitized most of the photos, but they
don't
> > > have a website yet to upload them to. One solution would be to use
> > > Wikimedia Commons to host all the photos, since its free and permanent,
> > and
> > > comes with the kind of file structure they need to let people access
> the
> > > content.
> > >
> > > The meta data for the photos is on paper tables, so I'm thinking that
> if
> > we
> > > could use OCR to read the metadata, then create a bridge program to
> fill
> > in
> > > the data fields for a mass upload of the images. Do we have anyone who
> > > would want to do that kind of project?
> > >
> > > Coming along for the drained locks underground tour might be as easy as
> > > signing an injury waiver. It sounds like I just need to stay in touch
> and
> > > show up on the right day, approximately when the tide is low in the
> first
> > > weeks of November.
> > >
> > > For the August FOBL meeting, they can invite members of the historical
> > > societies in Ballard, Magnolia, Wallingford, etc to come and listen to
> us
> > > give a recruiting/training new editors presentation. So we should plan
> > > something to present.
> > >
> > > There's tons of history to cover on all the public debates over if,
> when
> > > and where to build the Ballard Locks going back to the 1880s. They had
> a
> > > number of lawsuits. The project includes the Ship Canal, lowering Lake
> > > Washington, draining the shoreline around Renton, reversing the river
> > flow
> > > around the Duwamish, leaving the Georgetown Steam plant high and dry.
> > > There's so much to write about, and the historical photos are there if
> we
> > > can go get them. No article yet on Carl S. English, and several other
> > > figures who built the Locks.
> > >
> > > And they have a whole room of antique tools and equipment used to build
> > the
> > > locks, giant rivets and rivet guns, tongs, gauges and instruments. It
> all
> > > needs to be photographed.
> > >
> > > That's only the beginning. So we need an outline plan, and we need to
> > > assign tasks.
> > >
> > > Dennis
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