Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[geni]

On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell  wrote:

> I like the stray text around the images - it  shows that the picture
> is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or
> engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases.



Not for use in articles. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Socon_Castle


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Andrew Gray]

I did put a few of the books up in the past (as PDFs provided by the
BL, then manually converted to DjVu):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).djvu
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).pdf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Journey_in_Khorassan_and_Central_Asia

I kept running into size limits & wasn't quite sure how best to get
the right material to Wikisource, but if there's particular titles,
let me know & I'll see what can be done.

On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell  wrote:
> I like the stray text around the images - it  shows that the picture
> is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or
> engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The
> problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations,
> which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or
> printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless
> Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use
> those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons
> image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic
> books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource.
>
> 2013/12/18, geni :
>> On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community
>>> can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content.
>>>
>>
>> Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to
>> remove things like stray text.
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Jane Darnell]

I like the stray text around the images - it  shows that the picture
is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or
engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The
problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations,
which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or
printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless
Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use
those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons
image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic
books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource.

2013/12/18, geni :
> On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen
> wrote:
>
>>
>> As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community
>> can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content.
>>
>
> Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to
> remove things like stray text.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[geni]

On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

>
> As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community
> can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content.
>

Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to
remove things like stray text.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 12/15/2013 12:48 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:

2013/12/15 Katie Chan :


"We plan to launch a
crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe
what the images portray."



The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million
uncategorised images == Commons community raise up in arms


It does not really make a difference whether you release a million
images without metadata to Flickr, or to Commons. It comes without any
metadata, so it cannot be searched (and images cannot be found) in
either case. :(


As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons 
community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified 
content.


I agree with Andy (see 
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/#comment-209343) 
that tools for easier curation will be quite helpful.


Matt Flaschen


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[geni]

On 15 December 2013 19:36, Andy Mabbett  wrote:

> The images contain metadata, which could be used for categorisation,at
> the book level.
>

Not that useful.

If you look at the images a lot are simply decorations and there are a fair
number of duplications.




> The whole point of the wiki model is that we make incremental steps
> towards completion.
>
> An analogy could be drawn with Wikipedia's "stub" articles.
>

Commons already has 19 million images to make incremental steps on.
En.Wikipedia has 4.4 million articles total, even the stubs are a lot more
searchable and it has more people.



> It's not good for us to lobby institutions to release media, and then
> decline to accept it.
>

So we need to decide in advance what we are looking at. With 19 million
already we've reach the stage where we should probably be more selective.




> I would have liked the release to have been direct to Commons; at
> least, I would have liked the opportunity to debate whether to accept
> it. I hope that the next tome such an release is being considered, we
> will be in a better position to facilitate the former.
>
>
Having the images on flickr isn't too bad. They are still searchable and
fairly easy to import although my search results have been turning up less
than 1% that area really of interest an even then the quality isn't always
usable.



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Andy Mabbett]

On 15 December 2013 17:39, Katie Chan  wrote:

> The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million
> uncategorised images == Commons community raise up in arms

The images contain metadata, which could be used for categorisation,at
the book level.

The whole point of the wiki model is that we make incremental steps
towards completion.

An analogy could be drawn with Wikipedia's "stub" articles.

It's not good for us to lobby institutions to release media, and then
decline to accept it.

I would have liked the release to have been direct to Commons; at
least, I would have liked the opportunity to debate whether to accept
it. I hope that the next tome such an release is being considered, we
will be in a better position to facilitate the former.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Andy Mabbett]

On 15 December 2013 16:08, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada  quoted:

> We have released over a million
> imagesonto Flickr Commons

Please note that we have a project page, for discussion of importing
these images to Commons in a sensible manner:

   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Jens Best]

Just discovered the Commons project-site, too. Good to break down the
massive amount of unsorted material in countries first. Could help to
address interested editors quicker.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection

Jens


2013/12/15 Michael Peel 

> There’s been quite a lot of discussion of this on the cultural-partners
> mailing list (https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners).
> As a result of that, Tom Morris has set up a working page on Commons at:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 15 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jens Best  wrote:
>
> > Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
> > instead of Commons.
> > http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/
> >
> >
> > 2013/12/15 Jens Best 
> >
> >> Thanks for the news.
> >>
> >> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the
> British
> >> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
> >> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
> >>
> >> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
> >> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
> >>
> >> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
> >> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
> >> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
> >>
> >> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
> >> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to
> >> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to
> help
> >> describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to
> >> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the
> content."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Jens
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 
> >>
> >> Quote from full announcement
> >>>
> >>>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
> >>>
> >>> We have released over a million
> >>> imagesonto 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... :-)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Juergen Fenn]

2013/12/15 Katie Chan :

>> "We plan to launch a
>> crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe
>> what the images portray."
>
>
> The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million
> uncategorised images == Commons community raise up in arms

It does not really make a difference whether you release a million
images without metadata to Flickr, or to Commons. It comes without any
metadata, so it cannot be searched (and images cannot be found) in
either case. :(

Regards,
Jürgen.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Michael Peel]

There’s been quite a lot of discussion of this on the cultural-partners mailing 
list (https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners). As a 
result of that, Tom Morris has set up a working page on Commons at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection

Thanks,
Mike

On 15 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jens Best  wrote:

> Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
> instead of Commons.
> http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/
> 
> 
> 2013/12/15 Jens Best 
> 
>> Thanks for the news.
>> 
>> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the British
>> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
>> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
>> 
>> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
>> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
>> 
>> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
>> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
>> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
>> 
>> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
>> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to
>> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help
>> describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to
>> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content."
>> 
>> 
>> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Jens
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 
>> 
>> Quote from full announcement
>>> 
>>> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>>> 
>>> We have released over a million
>>> imagesonto 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... :-)
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>> 
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>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Katie Chan]

On 15/12/2013 17:05, Jens Best wrote:

Thanks for the news.

A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the British
Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons?


This:


"We plan to launch a
crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe
what the images portray."


The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million 
uncategorised images == Commons community raise up in arms



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Jens Best]

Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
instead of Commons.
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/


2013/12/15 Jens Best 

> Thanks for the news.
>
> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the British
> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
>
> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
>
> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
>
> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to
> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help
> describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to
> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content."
>
>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jens
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 
>
> Quote from full announcement
>>
>> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>>
>> We have released over a million
>> imagesonto 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... :-)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Jens Best]

Thanks for the news.

A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the British
Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
something with a better usability of Flickr? -

The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?

The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for us
to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
crowdsourcing information and knowledge:

"We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display these
'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to launch a
crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe
what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to train
automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content."

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html

Best regards,

Jens






2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 

> Quote from full announcement
>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>
> We have released over a million
> imagesonto 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
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[Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada]

Quote from full announcement
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html

We have released over a million
imagesonto 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 
> Microsoftwho
>  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... :-)
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