---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada" <[email protected]> Date: Dec 15, 2013 8:09 AM Subject: [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]>, "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <[email protected]> Cc:
Quote from full announcement http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html We have released over a million images<http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary>onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images > were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised > by > Microsoft<http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century-Book-Digitisation-Project-343.aspx>who > then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release > them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a startling > mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful > illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, > colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that > even we are not aware of. Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary Example of image http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/ Example of all images from a book http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292 Stuff for coders https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory So... :-) _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
