[Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Jens Best]

Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
instead of Commons.
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/


2013/12/15 Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de>

> Thanks for the news.
>
> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the British
> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
>
> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
>
> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
>
> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to
> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help
> describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to
> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content."
>
>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jens
>
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> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp at gmail.com>
>
> Quote from full announcement
>>
>> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>>
>> We have released over a million
>> images<http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary>onto Flickr Commons
>> for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images
>> > were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised
>> > by Microsoft<
>> http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century-Book-Digitisation-Project-343.aspx>who
>> then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release
>> > them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a
>> startling
>> > mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful
>> > illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters,
>> > colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more
>> that
>> > even we are not aware of.
>>
>>
>> Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
>> Example of image http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/
>> Example of all images from a book
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292
>> Stuff for coders https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory
>>
>> So... :-)
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.