Jheald

Hi, I am James Heald.

I've made most of my edits on en-wiki, so the best place to leave a note for me is probably

en:User talk:Jheald

Most recently I have been most focussed on Commons,

c:User:Jheald

particularly in trying to make more accessible the British Library/Mechanical Curator collection image release.

At this moment, I am particularly focussed on a project to take 50,000 maps that have been found in the million images from the BL release, to encourage people to come and georeference them, and then for them to be automatically uploaded to Commons, with correct machine-identified categories based on the georeferencing.

The georeferencing will go live in mid-March; I hope I can get the wiki side of things in place by then, or very soon after.

Upcoming proposals

• GLAM-WIKI 2015 (10-12 April 2015, The Hague)
  • wmnl:GLAM-WIKI 2015/Proposals/The Wikimedia/British Library map mapping project -- review and latest update

• Wikimania 2015 (15-19 July 2015, Mexico City)
  • wm2015:Submissions/Mapping the Maps -- Help geolocate 50,000 maps and load them fully categorised onto Commons
  • wm2015:Submissions/International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) -- an emerging global standard for mashing images from different sites
  • wm2015:Submissions/Building up Wikidata, country by country