Commons:Internet Archive/Book Images collection

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The Internet Archive Book Images collection is a set released in August 2014 of 2.4 million images identified in books scanned by the Internet Archive (with more to follow), uploaded to Flickr.

Files from the collection that have been uploaded to Commons can be found in

Category:Files from Internet Archive Book Images Flickr stream

This page is to establish a project parallel to that working on the similar Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection, a set of 1 million images uploaded by the British Library in November 2013.

To specify searches at Flickr on the IA Book Images collection, use w=126377022@N07, compared to w=12403504@N02 for the Mechanical Curator.

Upload approaches

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Initial project requirements

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Like the Mechanical Curator project, the IA images project is likely to require:

templates

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  • A source template, similar to {{Mechanical Curator image}}, to identify images from this source, and act as a container for appropriate link-backs to the image in the book, the image on Flickr, the image set for the book on Flickr, and the book on the IA.
  • An ingestion script, similar to {{Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/script}}, to automatically load an {{Artwork}} template with the appropriate parameters
  • A category header template, similar to {{BL1million bookcat}} to add a link back to the book on IA and the image set for the book on Flickr. In time this may be replaced with a more detailed template, drawing structured data about the book from Wikidata, but that is probably not possible until early 2015.

categories

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indexes

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Interested participants

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