---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Von: "Andrew Gray" andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk Datum: 13.12.2013 11:31 Betreff: [cultural-partners] A million images released An: "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination" < cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch>

Hi all,

An interesting challenge for us: the British Library has just released a million (really - 1,019,993) high-quality scans of public domain images onto Flickr Commons:

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-fi... http://lukemckernan.com/2013/12/13/mechanical-curation/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ (images) https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory (metadata)

The challenge is that they don't know what any of the pictures actually are. They've been programatically extracted from a corpus of digitised books, with no metadata beyond the details of the book itself - which of course tells us very little about what any given picture is.

As a result, they aren't much use for Commons - at least, not as a bulk upload. (I looked into this a few months back). They're all PD, though, so can be individually migrated across without any rights issues.

The plan is to use Flickr to feed these into a crowdsourcing application of some form, and hopefully that will give us enough metadata to be able to start pulling them across into Commons. However, if you have any smart ideas for how we could bring them into Commons now, using the metadata we have...

Andrew.

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