[Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi, I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has donated 50,000 public domain jpeg images to Wikimedia Australia, and we are currently in the process of uploading them. We are still in the process of launching everything. The central page for documenting and discussing it

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread K. Peachey
I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread John Vandenberg
We have a local copy in Brisbane and Armidale. The metadata is in a static XML file. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread Brianna Laugher
Wow, what a great partnership, congratulations! That's wonderful. Good timing, too ;) I look forward to hearing more about the collection. Brianna On 17 December 2010 15:18, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has