Thanks Fae,
If this does come off and you have a residue of awkward to categorise ones I might be available to sort them out if you can get them in a separate temporary category. I helped WMIE with Wiki Loves monuments last year and have nearly finshed the English residue of this years Wiki Loves Monuments.
On 14 October 2016 at 12:29, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Rod, I'd be happy to help with a call/video meeting, or to run the modest-sized batch upload when they are ready. The numbers mentioned may take just a day or two to upload. At this moment I'm the most active Commons uploader of GLAM media, the can see examples at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Project_list
As Jonathan implies, the upload itself may be a bit technically challenging, but is not especially intellectually challenging for the institution. The hard part is the early spadework; examining the collection and ensuring that the metadata is reliably consistent, working out how to do some auto-categorization without potentially 'spamming' Commons categories, that the best use is made of Commons templates by intelligently mapping metadata to fields, and that the various copyright scenarios are hammered out in advance.
The last issue of copyright may be as simple as applying the no-copyright-known template, or it may need a bit of programmer magic to automatically map copyright licenses based on metadata, and weed out images that may be challenged under our strict Commons policies of there being "no significant doubt". It's better to have those discussions early, rather than have multiple deletion requests to manage downstream.
Fae
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On 14 October 2016 at 09:15, Jonathan Cardy werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Fæ would be my first suggestion for a mass upload if he is available and
the
collection is suitable. But reading through that link I'm not sure we can use that collection. Apparently it was started forty years ago by a
curator
who invited people to bring in historic photos and lend them to the
museum
to make a copy.
I'm sure that's fine for the Museum to use. But I wouldn't care to argue
on
Commons that this constitutes a CC-BY-SA 3 licence for all those images. Hopefully there will be a subset which can be dated early enough to argue PD. Maybe there are some where the rights owner can be traced, but I'd suspect there will be a lot of photographers from an era where some will have died long enough ago to make it difficult to trace the heirs, and others may even still be with us. At some point in the future no doubt we can import the lot, provided a digital copy is still extant.
Another reason why the movement needs a sealed repository from which
stuff
can be migrated when it is out of copyright.
Depending on the age range of the images and the quality of the metadata there could be a useful proportion that would be safe to upload. It all depends on the ratio of "my grandfather died in 1880 and left us this collection" to "my grandfather died in 1980 and left us this collection".
WSC
On 14 Oct 2016, at 08:18, rod@rodspace.co.uk rod@rodspace.co.uk
wrote:
Hi all,
I have just spotted an announcement of a historic photograph digitisation project by the friends of the Somerset Life Museum Research Group (see https://somersetrurallifemuseum.org.uk/2016/10/13/digitisation-project/
)
aiming to digitise 15,000 images.
I have made an initial contact asking about licencing and sharing and mentioned “mass uploads” but I know very little about this. I believe
there
have been some people who have done this for/with other GLAMS and/or developed tools to handle this. Who would be the best person to put them
in
touch with if they come back to me and they are willing to release under
a
suitable licence?
Rod
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