Thank you Olaf, this kind of donations are wonderful examples for other countries too. I've just reported it to Italian libraries major list, after a discussion some weeks ago about a regional digital library [1] and its choice of CC BY-NC-SA licenses insted of PD. It's a long road for us...
bye virginia https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Virginia_Gentilini [1] http://bibliotecadigitale.regione.liguria.it On 22 July 2015 at 18:44, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice work. > > Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that > most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a > good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer! > > I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the > XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is > little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization > being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are > put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want > to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you > can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The > simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read > up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for > searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them > between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3] > > Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is > approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some > volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding > geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to > check these by hand. > > Links > 1. GLAM Dashboard > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard > 2. Advanced Commons searching > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch > 3. VisualFileChange tool > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js > 4. Map workshop > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > On 22 July 2015 at 16:54, Olaf Janssen <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100 > images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons. > > Each atlas has its own category > > · Category:Atlas Schoemaker (2579 images) > > · Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen (446 images) > > · Category:Atlas_Beudeker (133 images) > ... > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >
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