Yes indeed, he could very well do it technically speaking (I can't account for his time - as a volunteer - of course). But it would be great if CSIRO would do it themselves (even with some behind the Scenes hand-holding as this would be a big boost for content donations in Australia and in the sciences. I've written to them today already to ask directly and, if there's any specific forward-motion I'll be sure to let folks know.
-Liam On Monday, 25 August 2014, Russavia <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not ask Fae to do it, he's a pro at stuff like this. I'll leave it up > to you guys to reach out to him. > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Toby Hudson <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> 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 <[email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> 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 <[email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> 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 >>>> > [email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >>>> > >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> > -- wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
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