Re: [Commons-l] Images from the National Museum of Denmark

Some days ago the project of extracting million images from Internet Archive books. Some months ago the British Library published 1 million images. Now the National Museum of Denmark. Probably this will be the routine for the next few years or decades. I'm thinking how we can manage properly this

Re: [Commons-l] images

2014-08-31 15:24 GMT+02:00 Yann Forget : > I don't see any issue extracting the images from the books. However I > see a problem identifying an image when it is out of context. > And the text of the books is certainly as much of interest as the images. > > But every image in this Flickr project co

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research

If the metadata dataset license allow it, it would be interesting to import it into Labs as a database. 2014-07-05 8:47 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > 12 GB of metadata and 50 TB of files released by Yahoo!. «Plus about 49 > million of the photos are geotagged!» > > http://yahoolabs.tumblr.c

Re: [Commons-l] 1 image per km2 globally

or normal, quality and feature images. I hope you like it. This tool doesn't intend to promote bad quality pictures, but showing which places need more coverage. http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#10/28.2977/-16.5317 > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posad

Re: [Commons-l] 1 image per km2 globally

Curious stuff I find while doing tests... A line of white dots (pictures) along dozens of km in the North of Europe http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#7/69.071/19.709 Can you imagine what it means? :-) Zoom to solve. 2014-06-20 17:13 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada : > 2014-06

Re: [Commons-l] 1 image per km2 globally

; that you provide a way to view the images themselves from the map. > > Ryan Kaldari > > Yes, it is a basic feature. Now the images are shown from the zoom 10. > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada < > emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >&g

Re: [Commons-l] 1 image per km2 globally

2014-06-19 23:16 GMT+02:00 : > Nice tool! But when I look at my area, the problem are not missing > photographs but just that most of them are not geocoded. > > indeedous > > Yep, I have noted this too in my region. A feature to add coordinates to images from the map would be great, adding somethi

[Commons-l] 1 image per km2 globally

Hi all; Since I watched the project Geograph Britain[1] long time ago, I dreamed with a global version. I have been playing with maps (mostly Google Maps) in the past years, but now that I'm migrating my tools to Wikimedia Labs, I started to read about OpenStreetMap and Leaflet. I have made some

[Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

Quote from full announcement http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html We have released over a million imagesonto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images > were taken from the

Re: [Commons-l] [wikiteam-discuss:699] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

lman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 >> 4266 >> > >> > _______ &g

Re: [Commons-l] [wikiteam-discuss:699] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

Nice work Nemo! 2013/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) > WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to > 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ > **wikimediacommons > So far it's about 24 TB of

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons

Very interesting. Congrats! 2013/7/1 Andrew Gray > Hi all, > > Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to > mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in > April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the > Canadian Copyright Collectio