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
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
On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com 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
On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen matthew.flasc...@gatech.eduwrote:
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
On 12/15/2013 12:48 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:
2013/12/15 Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info:
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
Quote from full announcement
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
We have released over a million
imageshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibraryonto Flickr Commons
for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images
were taken from the
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
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 jens.b...@wikimedia.de
Thanks for the news.
A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the
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
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:
2013/12/15 Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info:
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
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
On 15 December 2013 16:08, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com quoted:
We have released over a million
imageshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibraryonto Flickr Commons
Please note that we have a project page, for discussion of importing
these images to Commons in a sensible manner:
On 15 December 2013 17:39, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info 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
On 15 December 2013 19:36, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk 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
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