Hi all - thanks for the interest! We've finally secured a room, after an awful lot of phoning around and juggling of bookings - we'll be working with the images on Monday 18th March, at the BL Conference Centre (which some of you may remember from GLAMcamp, or from one of my public workshops). I haven't set up times etc yet, but we have the room all day - there's a public wireless network, and I'll arrange coffee and sandwiches.
If you are still interested in coming along on the 18th, please drop me an email to say so, and I'll start pulling names together :-) - Andrew. On 11 February 2013 17:19, 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 -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
