Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
Unfortunately, they all look like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montr...
Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...