Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa/The whole GLAM package/Select images
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At this point you’ll have cut down your list of potential records to a set that fits well with your goals and scope. If needed, you’ll also have digitised missing images and made corrections to the data.
Selection criteria[edit]
Checklist task: Set selection criteria
Deciding which images are the best should include looking again at your overall goals, how the Commons works, and what the audience needs. Work as a group to come up with the criteria that work for you, and save them in a document you can refer to later.
| Does it suit your project goals? | Does this image support your goal of focusing on a single region or community, is it useful within the educational context you want to prioritise? |
| Will it work on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons? | Are there already lots of very similar images on these platforms, or are you filling a gap? How will this image look not just when seen on Wikimedia Commons but also as a thumbnail within an article? If someone wants to download the image, will it be large enough to be useful? |
| Is it a good representation? | Is it the best representation? Is it useful to cover multiple different views or environments? Is it well lit and not blurry? |
| What other limits are you working to? | If you’re picking specimen images based on species, how many specimens and images do you need to cover for each one?
Are you going to try to cover them equally? It’s a good goal to have, but it may not always be possible, and that’s okay. |
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Te Papa’s project team used these prompts to focus our work:
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How to make selections[edit]
Checklist task: Select images
If you already have the right number of records and images, great! You can jump right to checking your images for size and quality. Otherwise, you can start figuring out what’s the best of the best.
Export the list of records you’ve selected from OpenRefine and download all the associated images.
 | Tip If you decided on a minimum size earlier, it’ll save time to exclude any images that are too small now. |
Things that will help you with your selection process:
- Include the record and image id in the filename – this will help you keep track of what you’ve selected.
- Make a folder for each record, and if you have groups of records (for example multiple specimens for a species), make folders for the groups too.
- Make another folder for your selections and when you want to include an image, drag and drop it over.
- Your subject matter expert is the best person to make selections, but the rest of the team can help – use them as a second (or third) set of eyes.
Now, with your criteria document open, start reviewing images.
Tips when reviewing:
- Don’t try and get everything ‘right’ in one go – work folder by folder and be generous in your selections. It’s easier to remove extra images than it is to go back and find more to add.
- Eyeball how many images are in each folder to give you a sense of how strict you need to be. If there’s only one image on a record, you can just drag it over.
- If you find you don’t want to include any images for a record, make a note of it and move on. Maybe it doesn’t make it into this project, but you can look at getting a better image later.
When you’re happy with the selections, the filenames will tell you which records and images you need to get the data for.
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