Spotted this. The rights issues around the material would no doubt be
interesting, but this might be something where we could offer some
funding to offset the costs of digitisation/storage, and look to get a
tranche of the material onto Commons.
Thoughts?
Andrew.
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From: Andy Robinson <ajrlists(a)gmail.com>
Date: 5 April 2013 10:54
Subject: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs
To: Talk-GB(a)openstreetmap.org
Folks,
Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available
to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection
(amounting to around 6 filling
cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white
9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s.
There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled.
I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage
requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to
be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it
all looks like in the next few days.
In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers:
1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a
sub-project within OSM?
2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items
can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies
to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later
date.
I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have
sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to
an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with
tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given
the task there's a workable solution for that too.
All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome.
Cheers
Andy
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This week I have started work as your GLAM organiser, and for those of you
who haven't followed our WMUK blog
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Please find time over the weekend to find "reasons to be cheerful"
(see Ian Dury) about the Google Global Impact Challenge and the
opportunity it presents. Two candidates are up at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Google_Global_Impact_Challenge .
For example, either project there would bring WMUK into serious
software development, and so the charity would move to having a
project manager whose expertise would be useful also on other fronts.
One more of my own: the discussion on this list and last year of
online education and WMUK showed that the community found the subject
engaging and fruitful. We are now implementing a VLE, which is a
nitty-gritty business but one that moves WMUK up the learning curve on
all the points raised before. Entering the Challenge in this area
would contribute to that process.
Being shortlisted (10 projects) is perfectly reasonable as an
ambition, and would be excellent publicity for the chapter.
There isn't a box on the entry form at
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/impactchallenge/ saying exactly
"tell us about yourself". It is more like an interview that starts
with easy questions, and moves gradually to the tricky stuff. There is
a box "why is your organisation poised for success?" We shouldn';t
be shy. "We wrote the world's largest reference work on a shoestring,
ignoring naysaying and preconceptions, and all we really needed was
good word-of-mouth. Just try and stop us."
Please support vocally the idea that the form should be filled in, on
your behalf.
Charles
Hello everyone,
I've just learned about this event next week at the Oxford Internet
Institute - http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=573 - I wondered if we have
any volunteers who would be interested in attending to represent the
Wikimedia movement. Do drop me a line if you're interested.
Thanks,
Stevie
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Hi all,
Working with the Royal Opera House, we've organized an editathon to
take place on Saturday 22 June, provisionally include some form of
behind-the-scenes tour as well (though we're still looking into the
details). The goal for the day is to focus on improving coverage of
the works of Sir Frederick Ashton - one of the UK's foremost
choreographers and a founding figure of the Royal Ballet.
More details are here:
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If you're interested, please do sign up and keep the date free! I'll
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Thanks,
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Hello everyone,
As you may now by now, I'm working on putting together Wikimedia UK's
annual review for 2012-13.
I'm really keen to get some contributions from the wider community so
please do get involved. If you'd like to contribute to the report please do
so by 12 April at the very latest please.
You can find the topic areas, and pages for each of them, at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2013_Annual_Report#Topics_to_cover
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK has today published a blog post announcing that the technology
behind QRpedia has been donated to Wikimiedia UK by Roger Bamkin and
Terence Eden.
As a donation from Roger and Terence, the intellectual property in QRpedia
and the qrpedia.org and qrwp.org domains will be transferred to Wikimedia
UK, which will maintain and support the development of the QRpedia platform
for the future for the benefit of the Wikimedia community. Roger and
Terence will act as honorary advisors to Wikimedia UK in this, as well as
retaining their moral rights of attribution, but will not receive any
financial consideration for this. The transfer of the domains will take
place as soon as the remaining legal details have been resolved.
Wikimedia UK is grateful for this donation which will allow ongoing
technical support for a number of Wikimedia-related outreach projects where
QRpedia is already in use, including Wikimedia UK’s work with the Derby
Museum and Monmouthpedia, and many others worldwide.
Full details are available on the Wikimedia UK blog at
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Stevie
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global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the
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