[OHM] OHM Tasking Manager on OHM Servers

[Steven Johnson]

Hello all,

Tim, thanks for the explanation, as well as your efforts to make this work.
Also, the links to the GWToolkit and wikimaps are quite useful. Presumably,
we could try out the process and see how it fits within the workflow.

I'll defer to Sanjay, but I would guess that the copyright issues should be
negligible. These are old maps that have been in the public domain for
yonks. What I do wonder about is the amount of resources that will be
required to enter metadata for each map.

Best,



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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sanjay
>
> On 30 November 2015 at 20:49, Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> The Wikimedia Warper that Tim Waters and others are working on has an
>> integration with OHM and will enable batch uploading, which is excellent.
>> This project will require georeferencing 175 maps just for the New York
>> metropolitan area – so, streamlining that process is much appreciated.
>>
>>
> This is progressing, although the batch upload facility will not be added
> to Mapwarper.net currently. The code is open sourced though.
>
> So to be able to use the maps within the wikimaps warper you would need to
> ensure the maps are suitable for adding to Wikimedia Commons. This would be
> a two step process.
> Firstly, you would need to (and correct me if I'm wrong, wiki people!)
> ensure that the maps are either out of copyright, public domain or CC0, CC
> etc.
>
> Secondly also ensuring that each Map has all the necessary metadata
> associated with it in Commons (scale, dates, author, publishing data,
> etc).
>
> So an institution would need to first import their images with metadata
> into Commons first. There is something called the Glam Wiki Toolkit
> (GWToolkit) which is available for use for importing a load of images - and
> I think there would be options for adding the necessary map template, too.
>
> There's more information about wikimaps here:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Tim
>
>
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