I'll be happy to come along and work provided I'm free on that day.

Theresa
On Feb 11, 2013 5:20 PM, "Andrew Gray" <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by
> WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian
> photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata
> is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs
> are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more
> are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking
> forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.
>
> Unfortunately, they all look like this:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif
>
> and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could
> offer this:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg
>
> Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working
> on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently
> seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set
> up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot
> at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people
> look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for
> interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)
>
> We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid
> March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know,
> and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans...
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
>
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