VRA 2015 - Describing natural history illustrations in the Art of Life project via the Wikipedia Commons platform

Presented to the Visual Resources Association annual meeting on March 13, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. Details: https://vra33.sched.org/event/0c7ab30b3c9d8a20e0074a9d489c1973

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1. Crowdsourcing natural history illustration annotations Wikimedia Commons as a crowdsourcing platform Gaurav Vaidya University of Colorado Boulder
6. 25 million media files since 2004
16. Why? - a HUGE audience
17. Why? - an ACTIVE audience (69,000 active editors as of November 2014!)
19. Why not? - NOT a place to dump files
20. Why not? - Public domain or CC only ❖ Published two centuries ago (1899!) — but not on the Commons!
21. Why not? - Public domain or CC only ❖ Published two centuries ago (1899!) — but not on the Commons! ❖ F. W. Frohawk died in 1946, aged 85.
22. Why not? - Public domain or CC only ❖ Published two centuries ago (1899!) — but not on the Commons! ❖ F. W. Frohawk died in 1946, aged 85. ❖ Enters the public domain in the U.K. in 2017.
23. Overview ❖ What is the Wikimedia Commons? ❖ Getting content into the Commons ❖ Getting annotations out of the Commons
34. GLAMwiki Toolset Project
43. Overview ❖ What is the Commons? ❖ Getting content into the Commons ❖ Getting annotations out of the Commons
44. Media, annotations and open media Thank you! Dimitris Kontokostas Trish Rose-Sandler William Ulate Robert Guralnick
45. Images ❖ Screenshots of: ❖ http://www.wikipedia.org/ ❖ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olinguito ❖ http://commons.wikimedia.org/ ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olinguito_ZooKeys_324,_solo.jpg ❖ https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/#gid=25 ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fungus-IMG_4310.JPG ❖ http://commons.dbpedia.org/page/File:Beardedtit46.jpg ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures_on_Wikimedia_Commons ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grapefruit_and_pomelo.jpg ❖ Images available under open access licenses: ❖ https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_group_photo.jpeg ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beardedtit46.jpg ❖ http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17195895 ❖ Images used under fair-use provisions: ❖ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61085
46. API Queries used ❖ http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php#Files+from+the +Biodiversity+Heritage+Library ❖ https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/ #gid=25&month=201502&giu=enwiki&server=en.wikipedia.org ❖ https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php? doit=1&category=Files+from+the+Biodiversity+Heritage +Library&use_globalusage=1&ns0=1&show_details=1&projects[wikipedia] =1&projects[wikimedia]=1&projects[wikisource]=1&projects[wikibooks]=1 &projects[wikiquote]=1&projects[wiktionary]=1&projects[wikinews]=1&pr ojects[wikivoyage]=1&projects[wikispecies]=1&projects[mediawiki]=1&pro jects[wikidata]=1&projects[wikiversity]=1#details ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php? action=query&prop=revisions&titles=File:Beardedtit46.jpg&rvprop=timest amp|user|comment|content