[Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
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. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
We have a local copy in Brisbane and Armidale. The metadata is in a static XML file. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
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 jay...@gmail.com 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. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l