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

[geni]

On 15 December 2013 19:36, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> The images contain metadata, which could be used for categorisation,at
> the book level.
>

Not that useful.

If you look at the images a lot are simply decorations and there are a fair
number of duplications.




> The whole point of the wiki model is that we make incremental steps
> towards completion.
>
> An analogy could be drawn with Wikipedia's "stub" articles.
>

Commons already has 19 million images to make incremental steps on.
En.Wikipedia has 4.4 million articles total, even the stubs are a lot more
searchable and it has more people.



> It's not good for us to lobby institutions to release media, and then
> decline to accept it.
>

So we need to decide in advance what we are looking at. With 19 million
already we've reach the stage where we should probably be more selective.




> I would have liked the release to have been direct to Commons; at
> least, I would have liked the opportunity to debate whether to accept
> it. I hope that the next tome such an release is being considered, we
> will be in a better position to facilitate the former.
>
>
Having the images on flickr isn't too bad. They are still searchable and
fairly easy to import although my search results have been turning up less
than 1% that area really of interest an even then the quality isn't always
usable.



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geni