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

Abstract
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.

Media coverage

 * British Library blog
 * tech blog posts
 * Flickr
 * no copyright restrictions
 * Wikimedia Commons mirror
 * Synoptic index
 * Full list of books
 * Andrew Gray
 * discusses why release did not go to Wikimedia Commons directly
 * Twitter
 * https://twitter.com/doctaCynthia/status/412669450832195584
 * https://twitter.com/FourRedShoes/status/412411445683290112
 * http://isitdown.tumblr.com/post/70301625505/flickr-is-down#.UrCefY0hb-s
 * https://twitter.com/IsItDownNow/status/412994972292775937
 * https://twitter.com/OffLucasLima/status/412293111574822912
 * https://twitter.com/duzovakawoh/status/411806342060339200
 * https://twitter.com/ZaynaHamarneh/status/411191850478092288
 * https://twitter.com/peter_s_clarke/status/415061062208483328
 * https://twitter.com/benosteen/status/413313959245406208
 * hashtag #BL1million
 * blpublicdomain wiki
 * Ars technica
 * The Atlantic
 * links to other large image donations
 * Wired
 * The Guardian
 * heise.de
 * Daily Mail
 * Creative Review
 * Spiegel online
 * The Signpost
 * Sounds inspired by the images
 * Crowdsourcing Comic Art

Similar releases

 * Wellcome Images (100k)
 * Comments at Public Domain Review