Thanks Fae, If this does come off and you have a residue of awkward to categorise ones I might be available to sort them out if you can get them in a separate temporary category. I helped WMIE with Wiki Loves monuments last year and have nearly finshed the English residue of this years Wiki Loves Monuments.
On 14 October 2016 at 12:29, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rod, I'd be happy to help with a call/video meeting, or to run the > modest-sized batch upload when they are ready. The numbers mentioned > may take just a day or two to upload. At this moment I'm the most > active Commons uploader of GLAM media, the can see examples at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Project_list > > As Jonathan implies, the upload itself may be a bit technically > challenging, but is not especially intellectually challenging for the > institution. The hard part is the early spadework; examining the > collection and ensuring that the metadata is reliably consistent, > working out how to do some auto-categorization without potentially > 'spamming' Commons categories, that the best use is made of Commons > templates by intelligently mapping metadata to fields, and that the > various copyright scenarios are hammered out in advance. > > The last issue of copyright may be as simple as applying the > no-copyright-known template, or it may need a bit of programmer magic > to automatically map copyright licenses based on metadata, and weed > out images that may be challenged under our strict Commons policies of > there being "no significant doubt". It's better to have those > discussions early, rather than have multiple deletion requests to > manage downstream. > > Fae > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > On 14 October 2016 at 09:15, Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Fæ would be my first suggestion for a mass upload if he is available and > the > > collection is suitable. But reading through that link I'm not sure we can > > use that collection. Apparently it was started forty years ago by a > curator > > who invited people to bring in historic photos and lend them to the > museum > > to make a copy. > > > > I'm sure that's fine for the Museum to use. But I wouldn't care to argue > on > > Commons that this constitutes a CC-BY-SA 3 licence for all those images. > > Hopefully there will be a subset which can be dated early enough to argue > > PD. Maybe there are some where the rights owner can be traced, but I'd > > suspect there will be a lot of photographers from an era where some will > > have died long enough ago to make it difficult to trace the heirs, and > > others may even still be with us. At some point in the future no doubt we > > can import the lot, provided a digital copy is still extant. > > > > Another reason why the movement needs a sealed repository from which > stuff > > can be migrated when it is out of copyright. > > > > Depending on the age range of the images and the quality of the metadata > > there could be a useful proportion that would be safe to upload. It all > > depends on the ratio of "my grandfather died in 1880 and left us this > > collection" to "my grandfather died in 1980 and left us this collection". > > > > > > WSC > > > > > > On 14 Oct 2016, at 08:18, <r...@rodspace.co.uk> <r...@rodspace.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I have just spotted an announcement of a historic photograph digitisation > > project by the friends of the Somerset Life Museum Research Group (see > > https://somersetrurallifemuseum.org.uk/2016/10/13/digitisation-project/ > ) > > aiming to digitise 15,000 images. > > > > > > > > I have made an initial contact asking about licencing and sharing and > > mentioned “mass uploads” but I know very little about this. I believe > there > > have been some people who have done this for/with other GLAMS and/or > > developed tools to handle this. Who would be the best person to put them > in > > touch with if they come back to me and they are willing to release under > a > > suitable licence? > > > > > > > > Rod > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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