Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
Count me in, for a start!
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
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On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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If I'm available, I'll bring along my Photoshoppery skills!
Stevie
On 11 February 2013 17:23, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
Count me in, for a start!
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
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+1 On Feb 11, 2013 5:23 PM, "Richard Symonds" richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Count me in, for a start!
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
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Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment.
Harry
-- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
Fabulous!
On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt harryaburt@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment.
Harry
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[1] http://unpaper.berlios.de/
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Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping...
(I feel like there *ought* to be some kind of monstrous seventeen-clause command line script I can write to do this sort of thing, but no luck so far)
- Andrew.
On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt harryaburt@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment.
Harry
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[1] http://unpaper.berlios.de/
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping...
Yes; well, it seems to only want to crop black borders from around the edges. But in any case, reorientation alone is going to save volunteers a lot of time; and there are good GUIs for batch cropping IIRC once you've taken out the need for reorientation.
Harry
-- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
My laptop doesn't have image editing software, otherwise I'd bring it, but if there will be laptops available I'd be interested in helping out.
Richard Nevell
On 12 February 2013 10:53, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping...
(I feel like there *ought* to be some kind of monstrous seventeen-clause command line script I can write to do this sort of thing, but no luck so far)
- Andrew.
On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt harryaburt@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do --
all
you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm
a
little tied up just at the moment.
Harry
-- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
[1] http://unpaper.berlios.de/
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Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along?
Thanks, Mike
On 12 Feb 2013, at 13:52, Richard Nevell richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
My laptop doesn't have image editing software, otherwise I'd bring it, but if there will be laptops available I'd be interested in helping out.
Richard Nevell
On 12 February 2013 10:53, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping...
(I feel like there *ought* to be some kind of monstrous seventeen-clause command line script I can write to do this sort of thing, but no luck so far)
- Andrew.
On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt harryaburt@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment.
Harry
-- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
[1] http://unpaper.berlios.de/
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On 12 February 2013 13:59, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along?
GIMP is indeed on all the visitor laptops (at least on the Ubuntu side). I'll leave the Windows side up to Richard :-)
(We should probably document this on-wiki somewhere...)
For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight.
On 12 February 2013 14:01, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 12 February 2013 13:59, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along?
GIMP is indeed on all the visitor laptops (at least on the Ubuntu side). I'll leave the Windows side up to Richard :-)
(We should probably document this on-wiki somewhere...)
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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On 12 February 2013 14:30, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight.
I'm informed that IrfanView "auto-crop borders already works, with higher color tolerancy in: properties->editing" (I've not tried it, yet)
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
ImageMagick can mass-crop images, with adjustable tolerance. It can also deskew (turn to right angle) images: http://greyproc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/batch-straighteningdeskewing-and.html
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:
On 12 February 2013 14:30, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight.
I'm informed that IrfanView "auto-crop borders already works, with higher color tolerancy in: properties->editing" (I've not tried it, yet)
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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On 12/02/13 13:59, Michael Peel wrote:
Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along?
Thanks, Mike
Works on Linux, Mac, Windows....
Gordo
I'd be interested too, if it's on a weekend.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
I'll be happy to come along and work provided I'm free on that day.
Theresa On Feb 11, 2013 5:20 PM, "Andrew Gray" andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Hi all - thanks for the interest!
We've finally secured a room, after an awful lot of phoning around and juggling of bookings - we'll be working with the images on Monday 18th March, at the BL Conference Centre (which some of you may remember from GLAMcamp, or from one of my public workshops). I haven't set up times etc yet, but we have the room all day - there's a public wireless network, and I'll arrange coffee and sandwiches.
If you are still interested in coming along on the 18th, please drop me an email to say so, and I'll start pulling names together :-)
- Andrew.
On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
--
- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org