[GLAM] [Image donations - Koninklijke Bibliotheek] Three historic atlasses via GLAMwiki-toolset

[Olaf Janssen]

-- Apologies for cross-posting --

Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Koninklijke_Bibliotheek> over 3100 images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.

Each atlas has its own category

* Category:Atlas Schoemaker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Schoemaker> (2579 images)

* Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen> (446 images)

* Category:Atlas_Beudeker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Beudeker> (133 images)

This was the first time the KB used the GLAMwiki-upload tool<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset>, which can upload large numbers of images batchwise. This tools has been used by many GLAMs, including the Institute for Sound & Vision<http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201407/first-batch-upload-wikimedia-commons-using-gwtoolset> ant the Peace Palace<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Peace_Palace_Library>. So far over 430.000<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GWToolset_Batch_Upload> images have been donated worldwide using this tool.

The three atlases were digitized in the late '90s and put online on the Memory of the Netherlands<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/instellingen/koninklijke_bibliotheek> website. This has been the source of the current donations.


* Atlas Schoemaker<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/schoemaker> displays 2579 images of topographical drawings, descriptions and prints of Dutch towns, villages and hamlets in the early 18th century. It was named after Andries Schoemaker<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Andries_Schoemaker> (1660-1735), an Amsterdam textile merchant whose passion was collecting historical and topographic information on towns and villages, and churches and castles in the Netherlands.



* Atlas Van der Hagen<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/atlassen/over_de_atlassen> from around 1690 contains topographical drawings and prints from across the globe in various formats, beautifully colored and decorated with gold. This relatively unknown atlas from the KB consists of four volumes bound in parchment, each holding approx. 100 pages. They were collected by the Amsterdam merchant and map collector Dirk van der Hagen<http://www.kb.nl/en/themes/maps/more-atlases/dirk-van-der-hagens-atlas>



* The Beudeker collection<http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/maps/beudcoll/beudekercols.html> from The British Library consists of 24 volumes and is named after the rich Amsterdam merchant Christoffel Beudeker<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel_Beudeker>. Volume 21 (from around 1750) contains 133 images devoted to the northern and southern Netherlands<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collecties/atlassen/over_de_atlassen>. This is the volume donated to Commons.

Uploading the images is just the start, in the next couple of weeks the KB will work on

* Expanding WP-articles about the atlases themselves, the creators/collectors (Andries and Gerrit Schoemaker, Cornelis Pronk, Abraham de Haen, Dirk van der Hagen etc) in multiple language versions

* Creating / expanding related Wikidata-items

* Promotional activities outside the community

The KB would like to invited all Wikip/m/edians to reuse the images as widely as possible, which could include

* Using them in WP-articles (no-brainer)

* Further (sub)categorization of the images. A subdivision into country/city/place names would make sense, see for instance this list of place names<http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/collectieindex/schoemaker/SCHOE01.index.locaties> for Schoemaker. Unfortunately it was not possible to do automatic subcategorization via the GLAMwiki-upload tool.

Including these 3 atlases the KB has now released 7 historic atlases, see this overview<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Koninklijke_Bibliotheek>.

With kind regards

Olaf Janssen

Wikipedia & open data coordinator

Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
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[Fæ]

Nice work.

Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that
most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a
good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer!

I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the
XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is
little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization
being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are
put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want
to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you
can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The
simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read
up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for
searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them
between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]

Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is
approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some
volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding
geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to
check these by hand.

Links
1. GLAM Dashboard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard
2. Advanced Commons searching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
3. VisualFileChange tool
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js
4. Map workshop
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop

Thanks,
Fae
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On 22 July 2015 at 16:54, Olaf Janssen <***@kb.nl> wrote:
...

Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100 images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.
Each atlas has its own category
· Category:Atlas Schoemaker (2579 images)
· Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen (446 images)
· Category:Atlas_Beudeker (133 images)

...

[Virginia Gentilini]

Thank you Olaf, this kind of donations are wonderful examples for other
countries too. I've just reported it to Italian libraries major list, after
a discussion some weeks ago about a regional digital library [1] and its
choice of CC BY-NC-SA licenses insted of PD.
It's a long road for us...

bye
virginia https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Virginia_Gentilini

[1] http://bibliotecadigitale.regione.liguria.it

Post by Fæ
Nice work.
Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that
most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a
good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer!
I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the
XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is
little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization
being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are
put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want
to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you
can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The
simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read
up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for
searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them
between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]
Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is
approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some
volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding
geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to
check these by hand.
Links
1. GLAM Dashboard
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard
2. Advanced Commons searching
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
3. VisualFileChange tool
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js
4. Map workshop
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop
Thanks,
Fae
--
...

Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100

images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.

Each atlas has its own category
· Category:Atlas Schoemaker (2579 images)
· Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen (446 images)
· Category:Atlas_Beudeker (133 images)

...
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