Image Uploads: A Look at the NARA / Wikimedia Commons “Narabot” Project
From Government Computer News:
Since 2011, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has uploaded more than 100,000 digitized records. To maintain the effort, the agency is working to develop new technology with the help of Wikipedia and the public.
Specifically, volunteers are working with NARA on Narabot, an upload script to port images to Wikimedia Commons, a sister project to Wikipedia and a repository of free media.
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Most of the files uploaded so far are popular images by artist Ansel Adams or war posters, [Dominic] McDevitt-Parks [digital content specialist and Wikipedian in Residence at NARA] said. However, archivists don’t choose and upload images themselves. They are developing a workflow so that digitized records can flow from NARA’s online catalog to the Commons. The agency has billions of analog textual records that have yet to be archived, so this effort will also help bring them online.
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See Also: Files Uploaded by Narabot
See Also: NARA on Wikimedia Commons
See Also: Narabot Code on Github
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, News, Open Access
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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