If I'm available, I'll bring along my Photoshoppery skills!
Stevie
On 11 February 2013 17:23, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
> Count me in, for a start!
>
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> On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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>> 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_Mont…
>>
>> 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_Mont…
>>
>> 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...
>>
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