hi toby, thanks for the update. it's a pity the xml output would’t work. do you happen to have a sample of the output?
i’m not an expert in categories yet … with kind regards, dan On Sep 17, 2014, at 14:04 , Toby Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Well I've finally bitten the bullet. Unfortunately the CSIRO metadata format > wasn't compatible with GLAMtools, so I've written a scraping script. The > images are now getting uploaded to: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_from_CSIRO_ScienceImage > > I'm not great at clever-auto-categorization, so nearly all the categories are > redlinks based on CSIRO keywords, so any help categorizing these properly > would be much appreciated. > > There are some fantastic images here - please start using them in wiki. > > Thanks for communicating with them regarding their metadata Liam. I promise > I'll use GLAMtoolkit next time! > > Toby/99of9 > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Toby Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter / Liam, > Did anyone make progress on this? I've finally had a look at some of the > images, and we *definitely* want them on Commons. If nobody finds anything > easier, I suppose I can start putting together a scraping script (but this > may take me months at the rate I accumulate spare time). > Toby > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Peter, that would be great if you would use your inside-contacts. Much > quicker and also probably more effective than a cold-call! > Ideally they could pro-actively give us a bulk dump with the metadata that > they specifically wish - it gives them a greater sense of having contributed > to Wikimedia rather than just 'allowing' us to scrape the website. The other > thing is that the videos would all need mp4 -> ogv conversion. This is not > technically hard, but it is annoying. > Perhaps you could see if there's someone you know inside the organisation who > was responsible for that website who could help? > > Sincerely, > -Liam > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > > On 7 May 2014 09:39, Peter Ansell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Liam, > > I am currently working at CSIRO if that helps. Probably quickest to > try getting in contact using the details at: > > http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/pages/contact/ > > If that doesn't work I will contact my local PR person to see what we > can do to get a bulk dump somehow. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > On 6 May 2014 10:24, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists, > > I read today on the Creative Commons Australia blog that CSIRIO's > > ScienceImage library has been re-licensed to CC-BY: > > http://creativecommons.org.au/blog/2014/04/csiro-releases-scienceimage-archive-4000-cc-by-photos-free-for-reuse/ > > [for non-Australians CSIRO is our national science/research institute]. > > > > This is a fabulous series of images, nearly all of which are useful in WP > > articles as they are taken for 'scientific' purposes which means they are > > easily usable as educational images. Take a look: > > > > http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/ > > > > There's also over 500 documentary video files > > http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/search/?tags=&keyword=&library=&assettype=video&rgb=&deviation=30&page=1 > > > > Here are the subject areas they've divided things up into: > > > > Animals birds fish marine life sheep > > Buildings laboratories radio telescopes > > Food fruits vegetables seafood > > Insects arachnids moths termites > > Landscapes deserts farms mountains > > People In the lab in the field > > Plants crops flowers trees > > Soil Science erosion mining soils > > Technology computers & computer equipment > > Textile wool and woollen products > > Transportation boats > > Equipment industrial equipment laboratories > > Fire bushfire fire management > > Water irrigation lakes rivers > > > > Could someone on the GLAMWikiToolset users see if you can neatly extract > > these files to mass upload them to Commons? Equally, we could try to contact > > CSIRO directly? > > > > -Liam > > > > wittylama.com > > Peace, love & metadata > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
