Good, the GLAM work is done, we can go back writing an encyclopedia ;-)
charles Le 13 déc. 2013 à 19:20, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> a écrit : > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > Von: "Andrew Gray" <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> > Datum: 13.12.2013 11:31 > Betreff: [cultural-partners] A million images released > An: "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination" > <cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch> > > Hi all, > > An interesting challenge for us: the British Library has just released > a million (really - 1,019,993) high-quality scans of public domain > images onto Flickr Commons: > > http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html > http://lukemckernan.com/2013/12/13/mechanical-curation/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ (images) > https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory (metadata) > > The challenge is that they don't know what any of the pictures > actually are. They've been programatically extracted from a corpus of > digitised books, with no metadata beyond the details of the book > itself - which of course tells us very little about what any given > picture is. > > As a result, they aren't much use for Commons - at least, not as a > bulk upload. (I looked into this a few months back). They're all PD, > though, so can be individually migrated across without any rights > issues. > > The plan is to use Flickr to feed these into a crowdsourcing > application of some form, and hopefully that will give us enough > metadata to be able to start pulling them across into Commons. > However, if you have any smart ideas for how we could bring them into > Commons now, using the metadata we have... > > Andrew. > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > _______________________________________________ > Cultural-Partners mailing list > cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch > https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners > Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for > permission before forwarding emails off-list. > _______________________________________________ > http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website > Wikimediach-l mailing list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
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