Hi folks,
This has been particularly disappointing - particularly since I've been at
the meetings in the archaeology/heritage sector waving the
Wikipedia/OpenData flag!
Oh well Good on you Andy! Who's your contact? You might want to try and
track down Keith May (author of this:
Perhaps if more people did use a public mailing list to point it out, the
offenders might be less likely to repeat the behaviour.
Just guessing, of course.
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Rexx
> On 08 June 2016 at 13:51 Charles Matthews
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It would make sense to build on the work already done in standardizing
NRHP related photographs. The 300,000 archive images of historic
American buildings I uploaded were mapped to Commons categories and
NRHP numbers. It's a while back, but you can see an example of
semi-automated mapping at
On 8 June 2016 at 11:03, Charles Matthews
wrote:
> Perhaps some thought should be given to how to structure metadata on
> buildings (and suchlike) on Commons.
Indeed. For those unfamiliar with them, there are some pages on this, at:
On 7 June 2016 at 14:29, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> I'm in contact with them, and am hoping to have a phone chat with the
> project manager later today.
Despite saying he'd call me, he didn't. Nor have I received any
explanation or apology for this.
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Andy Mabbett
Perhaps some thought should be given to how to structure metadata on buildings
(and suchlike) on Commons.
Some of us are aware that the advent of Wikidata has led to a reconsideration of
Commons from the "structured data" point of view; which is somewhat stalled
right now, though the Creator
Thanks for this Andy - what a shame! I hope you manage to speak to them and
see if there is any scope for coordination. Cheers, Lucy
On 7 Jun 2016 14:30, "Andy Mabbett" wrote:
> As you may have seen in the media, or on social media, today, Heritage
> England, who
As you may have seen in the media, or on social media, today, Heritage
England, who maintain the country's list of, er, listed buildings,
have launched a crowd-souring initiative, asking people to provide
information and images about listed buildings.
It's a horribly missed opportunity - it seems