Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Your thoughts about a mobile app (Update - Feedback needed)

2012-04-27 Thread André Costa
It's probably worth taking into account how difficult it is to get the app onto the official app platform or how much of a bureaucratic time delay this would entail. From what I've heard it's easier to get things into the Android Marketplace but I've got no data supporting this. It might also be

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Lars Aronsson
Here is an idea for the future, perhaps for WLM 2013. I just finished scanning a set of 5 books, being a description of Denmark's towns, counties and villages, by Jens Peter Trap, printed 1898-1906. It is full of woodcut illustrations of what Denmark looked like a century ago. I'm sure we could

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Lars, thanks for sharing this idea! I think it is a good and nice idea - actually something we already tried in the Netherlands as a local event in the historical city Delft. We collaborated there with the local GLAM center and a local newspaper - but unfortunately we dind't have any

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Here is an idea for the future, perhaps for WLM 2013. I just finished scanning a set of 5 books, being a description of Denmark's towns, counties and villages, by Jens Peter Trap, printed 1898-1906. It is full of woodcut

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Andrea Zanni
Hi Lars, great idea indeed. In the Italian Wikisource, we decided to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments just working on geographic/travel books, with illustrations and engravings. next step could be relating those with the list of monuments, as you suggest. It would need a lot of work, but it's

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Lodewijk
This is very useful feedback, thank you. Since this subcontest was primarily organized by our partner, WikiDelft, I am not aware of all the details, and I didn't realize that they added this requirement. I am unsure if the NL local team will use a similar concept again this year. Lodewijk El 27

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Pharos
This idea is not dissimilar to comparison photographs of say, commercial streets in a city, comparing what has changed and what has remained the same over the last century. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: This is very

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reproduce illustrations from an old book

2012-04-27 Thread Platonides
On 27/04/12 14:12, Kilian Kluge wrote: While adding images to monuments lists and looking through old pictures of monuments, I noticed that this happens quite often by accident: There seem to be certain views people prefer above all others when it comes to depicting a certain monument (even

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Your thoughts about a mobile app (Update - Feedback needed)

2012-04-27 Thread Platonides
On 27/04/12 13:00, André Costa wrote: It's probably worth taking into account how difficult it is to get the app onto the official app platform or how much of a bureaucratic time delay this would entail. From what I've heard it's easier to get things into the Android Marketplace but I've got