Nice work. Good to hear such news.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada <[email protected] > wrote: > Very interesting. Congrats! > > > 2013/7/1 Andrew Gray <[email protected]> > >> Hi all, >> >> Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to >> mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in >> April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the >> Canadian Copyright Collection, 1895-1924, covering photographs >> deposited for copyright registration in Canada during this period. >> There's currently about 2,000 photographs, many of which are >> composites of multiple images stuck together; all are available as >> full-resolution TIFFs and JPEGs. >> >> There's more files still trickling up - including some interesting >> aerial photographs, panoramas, and a collection of official >> photographs from WWI - but almost all of the "general" images are now >> online, and we're now just adding the oddities. Including the official >> photographs, this will total around 4,000 works. Please do take a look >> - there's some marvellous material in there. >> >> WMF: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/picturing-canada/ (in >> English and French; translation by Benoit Rochon) >> BL: >> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/07/happy-canada-day.html >> Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picturing_Canada >> >> Thanks to Wikimedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies for >> funding this, and to Phil Hatfield at the British Library for >> championing the collection! >> >> Andrew. >> >> -- >> - Andrew Gray >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
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