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 wrote:
> 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 is here:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland
>
> To get a feel for the people at the library behind this effort, and
> the library sector here in Australia, I recommend reading this paper
> written by Margaret Warren, who is one of the key people we have been
> working with at the library.
>
> http://www.nsla.org.au/publications/papers/2010/pdf/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-20100809-Public.domain.material.in.Collections.pdf
>
> We will be running new banners every day, and Wikimedians are welcome
> to create their own banners and we'll run the best ones. The banners
> need to use the SLQ images, and be 3000px by 150-180px.
>
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