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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk" target="_blank">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Hi all,<br>
<br>
As some of you may know, I&#39;ve been working on a project part-funded by<br>
WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian<br>
photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata<br>
is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs<br>
are piling up - there&#39;s currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more<br>
are going to roll in. It&#39;s all very exciting, and I&#39;m really looking<br>
forward to a big announcement once we&#39;ve got them all on Commons.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, they all look like this:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif</a><br>


<br>
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could<br>
offer this:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg</a><br>


<br>
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working<br>
on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I&#39;m currently<br>
seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set<br>
up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot<br>
at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people<br>
look at the images also means we&#39;ll have more eyes looking out for<br>
interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)<br>
<br>
We don&#39;t have a date yet, but tentatively we&#39;re thinking early/mid<br>
March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know,<br>
and I&#39;ll be in touch once we&#39;ve got fimer plans...<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
- Andrew Gray<br>
  <a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a><br>
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