Commons:Batch uploading/Atlas of Mutual Heritage

Atlas of Mutual Heritage

	Atlas of Mutual Heritage
	Click here for all images from this donation

The Atlas of Mutual Heritage (AMH) is a project set up by the Dutch Rijksmuseum, Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library, KB) and Nationaal Archief (National Archives, NA). It contains reproductions of old maps, prints and other images related to the Dutch East India Company and West India Company. It contains more than 6000 reproductions, the vast majority of which is in the public domain. More background information....

Images

In May 2014 the KB and NA donated 2.478 images from the AMH to Wikimedia Commons. These can be found here: Category:Media_from_Atlas_of_Mutual_Heritage

Image examples

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  View of the battle between the Dutch and the Portuguese for the city of San Salvador in the Bay of All Saints in 1624
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  Map of Batavia and environs (1682)
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  Bird's eye view of Bandanaira (1665)
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  Map of Fort Gustavus at Chinsura (ca. 1700)

Team

Upload was done by Husky using the HuskyBot. Metadata were checked by Gerritdeveer1597.

Technical

Example image from the AMH

The run was done with content from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (957 images) and Nationaal Archief (1611 images). Metadata from both these institutions has been acquired as an XML dump and was uploaded with a Pywikibot script.

An example image has been uploaded here. Because the AMH is a project with over 20 partners, this has is reflected in the partnership template that shows both the AMH logo and the partner (e.g. Koninklijke Bibliotheek).

Metadata

This page contains an example record in XML format. The metadata in general was pretty good, with all images being geolocated. The metadata was converted to the Artwork template. All descriptions are in both English and Dutch. Both the original XML record and the converted JSON were written in the page using the same convention the GWT uses.

Copyright

All objects in the initial run are very old, so the logical template would be {{PD-Art|PD-old-100}}. The metadata is still in copyright, but the copyright holders have released all metadata under a CC-Zero license, using a permission mail under the number 2014050710010164.

Test set

We've uploaded a batch of 12 images using the bot that can be found in the appropriate category. Any feedback would be very welcome.

Action	Status
Get the metadata as an XML file	Status:    Done
Create partnership templates on Commons	Status:    Done
Convert the XML to Wiki markup	Status:    Done
Do a test run with a small set (12 images)	Status:    Done
Fix bugs in the bot after feedback	Status:    Done
Do the final run	Status:    Done

Opinions

This looks like it's done so I'm removing it from the Batch Uploading list. BMacZero (talk) 07:20, 29 September 2015 (UTC)