[OpenGLAM] The Crusade for Curious Images: The British Library one-million images...one year on

[Sarah Stierch]

Awesome - thanks Marieke. Really pleased to see creative reuse taking place
- and super impressed with what has been created so far!

Here are all the images on Wikimedia Commons, so far:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_British_Library

Clearly we are missing some from Flickr (release the bots!)

-Sarah

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:

>  Hi Everyone,
>
> In December last year the British Library released over a million images
> on to Flickr Commons. The images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th
> and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft and gifted to the British
> Library. One-year on and they celebrated with an anniversary event looking
> at what researchers and artists have been doing with the released images
> and considering what the next phase is for the British Library Labs.
>
> I was lucky enough to go along and have written a post about it on the
> OpenGLAM blog:
> http://openglam.org/2014/12/19/the-crusade-for-curious-images/
>
> Season's greetings!
>
> Marieke
>
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