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Wikimedia Commons is a database of 1,635,963 freely reusable media files to which anyone can contribute. |
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== Description == |
== Description == |
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* Links: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Commons], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas Wiki-Atlas] |
* Links: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Commons], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas Wiki-Atlas] |
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* Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages |
* Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages |
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* Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items |
* Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items |
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== OLPC contributions == |
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* Contributed materials to library releases 0 and 1 at [http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/ http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/]. |
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== Formats == |
== Formats == |
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==Curator Info== |
==Curator Info== |
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'''Groups:''' Many (see caetgories below) |
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'''Group''': Images, Media |
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'''Group coordinators:''' Peter Kaufman (video) |
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'''Curators:''' Commons Atlas, more. |
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'''Allottable size''' |
'''Allottable size:''' 10M |
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[[Category:Wiki texts]] |
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[[Category:Books]] |
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[[Category:Photographs]] |
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[[Category:Audio]] |
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[[Category:Video]] |
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==Assessment== |
==Assessment== |
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Latest revision as of 02:31, 13 August 2008
Wikimedia Commons is a database of 1,635,963 freely reusable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Description
- Links: Commons, Wiki-Atlas
- Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages
- Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items
OLPC contributions
- Contributed materials to library releases 0 and 1 at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/.
Formats
- Formats materials are currently in : Ogg Vorbis and Theora
- Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from current packaging) : pulling metadata from media description pages (via db queries or screenscraping)
Curator Info
Groups: Many (see caetgories below)
Group coordinators: Peter Kaufman (video)
Curators: Commons Atlas, more.
Allottable size: 10M
Assessment
Scope all educational / informational subjects
Completeness great, with some hotspots based around major free collections (science, nature)
Multilingualism excellent, names/categories/descriptions tend to be english, with many in dozens more
Quality excellent; includes adult material
Freeness all free for reuse; largely pd, cc-by, cc-by-sa.
Comments, Tags, and Ratings
XO - smaller materials with links to higher-res materials. School library - Elementary