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

[Jens Best]

Just discovered the Commons project-site, too. Good to break down the
massive amount of unsorted material in countries first. Could help to
address interested editors quicker.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection

Jens


2013/12/15 Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>

> There’s been quite a lot of discussion of this on the cultural-partners
> mailing list (https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners).
> As a result of that, Tom Morris has set up a working page on Commons at:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 15 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.