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

[Andrew Gray]

I did put a few of the books up in the past (as PDFs provided by the
BL, then manually converted to DjVu):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).djvu
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).pdf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Journey_in_Khorassan_and_Central_Asia

I kept running into size limits & wasn't quite sure how best to get
the right material to Wikisource, but if there's particular titles,
let me know & I'll see what can be done.

On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell <jane023 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like the stray text around the images - it  shows that the picture
> is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or
> engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The
> problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations,
> which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or
> printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless
> Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use
> those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons
> image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic
> books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource.
>
> 2013/12/18, geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>> On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen
>> <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community
>>> can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content.
>>>
>>
>> Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to
>> remove things like stray text.
>>
>> --
>> geni
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