Categorization of these images seems to be a big problem. Category names shouldn't be in Italian.
Ankry W dniu 2016-04-08 17:15:20 użytkownik Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> napisał: > Forwarding on request. > > Nemo-BEIC > > -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- > Oggetto: [cultural-partners] Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo > Monti (BEIC) > Data: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:26:20 +0200 > Mittente: marcok > > Hi to all, > I’m the Wikipedian in residence at the digital library of Fondazione > BEIC, Milan, Italy. > > In the last days we at BEIC are uploading almost the entire photo > archive of a notable Italian photographer, Paolo Monti, counting 15.000 > images. > The whole archive was acquired by Fondazione BEIC in 2008. > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Paolo_Monti > > For what I know, this is the biggest donation of images in one shot ever > made in Italy. It’s also the first time that a digital archive from a > famous photographer is almost completely uploaded into Commons. > > This notable result was possible thanks to the long-lasting > collaboration between BEIC and Wikimedia Italia, started in 2014, and > also thanks to the technical assistance of Federico Leva aka Nemo, the > previous WiR at BEIC, now GLAM specialist at Wikimedia Italia. > > The photos of the Paolo Monti archive represent a variety of subjects > (art, events, architecture, people, portraits, nature, artistic nudes, > experimental) and were shot since 1950s to 1980s. Many of them are B/W, > but there are also many fascinating colourful artistic/experimental > pictures. > > We are now beginning to work on: > * fixing categories (often translating the basic original italian > keywords into english Commons categories) and providing a more detailed > categorization > * inserting useful images into Wikipedia articles (in italian, english > and other languages) > * selecting the best photos to candidate them as "featured pictures” > in Wikimedia Commons (only those with 2 Megapixel or more). > > Please help us, this is a huge work! > If you have any other ideas on how the images may be used, let us know! > > Thank you, > > Marco Chemello > Wikipedian in residence, Fondazione BEIC, Milan > (also Wikipedian in residence at the Science Museum, Milan) > > See: > http://www.beic.it/en/articles/digital-library > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC > https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC (main project page) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIC > http://www.beic.it/en/node/1969 (Fondo Paolo Monti - in Italian) > > > _______________________________________________ > Cultural-Partners mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners > Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for > permission before forwarding emails off-list. > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
