have you considered uploading to Internet Archive and then uploading to commons using IAupload tool? (this is the normal process for texts)
don't know if that can be automated https://internetarchive.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli.html https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/commons/init https://github.com/Tpt/ia-upload i'm afraid i've only done them one at a time cheers On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Olaf Janssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m preparing an image donation of some 350 picture books from 1810 to > 1880 (taken from the collection > http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/prentenboeken_van_1810_tot_1950 > ) > > For every book I’ve constructed an XML file describing the pages > (metadata). So eg. for a book of 20 pages I’ve an XML with 20 records. I > can upload these in the normal way via the GWToolset webinterface, also > assigning a Commons category to the book. > > > > For 1 book that’s doable, but for 350 books I would need to upload 350 XML > files, 1 by 1, using the GWT-webinterface (using the same json mapping file > for all uploads). But this would take me a lot of time (and it’s rather > boring)… > > > > So I’m wondering if / how I could automate this. Is there a more > direct/efficient way? > > > > I can image that I could do some command line interfacing (Pywiki??), with > the XML, the json-mapping and the target Commonscat-name as input > parameters. Would that be an option? > > > > Any tricks, tips & directions are very welcome > > > > > > Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards > > > > Olaf Janssen > > > > Wikipedia & open data coordinator > > > > Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands > [email protected] > > +31 (0)70 3140 388 > @ookgezellig > > www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL > > > > > [image: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands] > Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 | 2595 BE Den Haag > Postbus 90407 | 2509 LK Den Haag | (070) 314 09 11 | www.kb.nl > > English version <http://www.kb.nl/en/email> | Disclaimer > <http://www.kb.nl/disclaimer> > > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools > >
_______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
