http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/wellcome-library-donation/
Hi GLAMmers,
The target of uploading 100,000 high resolution historical images from
the Wellcome Library to Wikimedia Commons was hit last month and there
is a Foundation blog post telling the story of out today. See the
above link.
It is a great collection to illustrate not just medical history, but
ancient history, British cartoons, Chinese history, religions and many
others. In terms of quality and range, it is one of the most
prestigious collections of high quality scanned drawings, painting and
photographs on Wikimedia Commons. As a case study for other GLAMs, the
interesting news is that the project costs were almost *zero* as the
upload of 300 GB of images ran from my home laptop from a USB hard
disk that the Wellcome Library kindly posted to me. :-)
I have pinned a suggested tweet at
http://twitter.com/Faewik, and
there are share buttons at the bottom of the blog post too if you wish
to help promote the free collection on twitter or Facebook.
Cheers,
Fae
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