Wikimedia Commons

Description

• Links: Wiki-Atlas
• Languages: very multilingual; dozens of languages
• Size: 1.5M images, audio files, videos, and other items

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

Group: Images, Media

Group coordinator:

Contributing groups and their 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