User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Archiving 2014/A million first steps: crowdsourcing the creation of metadata

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The town hall of Jena before 1755
Salaga in 1892
Traditional clothing
Volcanic eruption giving birth to the island of Ferdinandea

In December 2013, the British Library released a set of more than one million images on Flickr. They had extracted them automatically from scans of Public Domain works in their collection. The metadata they had about these images were those pertaining to the scanned work, plus the page number. With the release, they hoped to crowdsource the generation of more specific metadata, describing what the content of the images is rather than their bibliographic location. In this talk, I will review the progress of the initiative over the course of the six months since then, paying special attention to metadata generated through integration of these images into Wikimedia Commons and putting the project into perspective of a range of large-scale releases of media files onto Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.

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