[OpenGLAM] irony of CC-BY without PIs

[Fae]

On 27/01/2014, Catherine Styles <cath.styles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Trouble is, Wellcome images don't seem to have any kind of unique
> identifier as far as finding them on the web goes. The system seems to

The unique identifier used by the library online is the "photo
number". This is the bold number shown against each photo thumbnail.
If you search for this number on their system, it is a reasonable way
of finding a photograph again.

There are some examples, and the metadata is under discussion on the
Wikimedia Commons batch upload project for the collection:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/Wellcome_Images_CC-BY

A case study is
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_warning_about_the_dangers_of_AIDS._Wellcome_L0053570.jpg>
where the source is quoted as
<http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0053570.html>

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