Hi Peter / Liam, Did anyone make progress on this? I've finally had a look at some of the images, and we *definitely* want them on Commons. If nobody finds anything easier, I suppose I can start putting together a scraping script (but this may take me months at the rate I accumulate spare time). Toby
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Peter, that would be great if you would use your inside-contacts. > Much quicker and also probably more effective than a cold-call! > Ideally they could pro-actively give us a bulk dump with the metadata that > they specifically wish - it gives them a greater sense of having > contributed to Wikimedia rather than just 'allowing' us to scrape the > website. The other thing is that the videos would all need mp4 -> ogv > conversion. This is not technically hard, but it is annoying. > Perhaps you could see if there's someone you know inside the organisation > who was responsible for that website who could help? > > Sincerely, > -Liam > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > > On 7 May 2014 09:39, Peter Ansell <ansell.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Liam, >> >> I am currently working at CSIRO if that helps. Probably quickest to >> try getting in contact using the details at: >> >> http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/pages/contact/ >> >> If that doesn't work I will contact my local PR person to see what we >> can do to get a bulk dump somehow. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter >> >> On 6 May 2014 10:24, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists, >> > I read today on the Creative Commons Australia blog that CSIRIO's >> > ScienceImage library has been re-licensed to CC-BY: >> > >> http://creativecommons.org.au/blog/2014/04/csiro-releases-scienceimage-archive-4000-cc-by-photos-free-for-reuse/ >> > [for non-Australians CSIRO is our national science/research institute]. >> > >> > This is a fabulous series of images, nearly all of which are useful in >> WP >> > articles as they are taken for 'scientific' purposes which means they >> are >> > easily usable as educational images. Take a look: >> > >> > http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/ >> > >> > There's also over 500 documentary video files >> > >> http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/search/?tags=&keyword=&library=&assettype=video&rgb=&deviation=30&page=1 >> > >> > Here are the subject areas they've divided things up into: >> > >> > Animals birds fish marine life sheep >> > Buildings laboratories radio telescopes >> > Food fruits vegetables seafood >> > Insects arachnids moths termites >> > Landscapes deserts farms mountains >> > People In the lab in the field >> > Plants crops flowers trees >> > Soil Science erosion mining soils >> > Technology computers & computer equipment >> > Textile wool and woollen products >> > Transportation boats >> > Equipment industrial equipment laboratories >> > Fire bushfire fire management >> > Water irrigation lakes rivers >> > >> > Could someone on the GLAMWikiToolset users see if you can neatly extract >> > these files to mass upload them to Commons? Equally, we could try to >> contact >> > CSIRO directly? >> > >> > -Liam >> > >> > wittylama.com >> > Peace, love & metadata >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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