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50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights
OlafJanssen
In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
See also this summary of the article.
New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco from the 1980s and 1990s by Angeline van Achterberg, African Studies Centre Leiden
Hans Muller, ASCL Wikimedian in residence
The African Studies Centre Leiden has recently released another installment of hundreds of photographs of Africa to Wikimedia Commons. They mainly hail from a large image donation by the late Dutch social anthropologist Angeline A. van Achterberg. Some locations in Morocco still want identification. Therefore your help in specifying Moroccan landscapes, towns and villages would be highly appreciated, thank you! A sample:
- Algeria: Melika, Djelfa, Atakor, Ahaggar, Tamanrasset, Terhaouhaout and Youka Hafit in 1981, 1984 and 1987
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Boys playing a game on the tiles, Melika, Mzab -
A young lady is weaving a tapestry, Djelfa -
Three ladies and a boy in their best attire for a party, Djelfa -
Eroded vulcano rocks, Atakor -
A desert mosque of few stones, Ahaggar
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A dromedary race with jockeys at the November 1th independence celebration, Tamanrasset -
Dromedary jockeys about to encircle singing women and children, November 1th independence celebration, Tamanrasset -
Horizontal and vertical stratified rocks, Youfa Hakit -
Ancient Tifinagh Berber script on a rock face, Youfa Hakit -
Women and their children near a zeriba, reed hut, Terhaouhaout
- Mali: Timbuktu, Djenné, Teli, Ségoukoro in 1993
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Tuareg jewelry seller Abdullah and a boy, Timbuktu -
A smiling girl in front of drying loam bricks, Timbuktu -
Two bread ovens on the street, Timbuktu -
Two goatherds and some twenty goats in the desert near Timbuktu -
Ruins of loam houses, Djenné
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A young Bozo woman is selling jewelry, Djenné on the Niger River -
A grain store, Teli, Dogon country -
The village weaver at work, Teli, Dogon country -
A man at the grave of Bitòn Coulibaly, Ségoukoro -
A woman at the women's entrance of a small mosque on the Niger River, Ségoukoro
- Morocco: Fez, Meknes?, unknown locations in the 1990s
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A female weaver with girls at work on a tapestry, Fez -
Three men at a fruit shop in the souk of Meknes ? -
An electrical substation in the mountains, where? -
A small red and white minaret in the mountains, where? -
Pedestrians in front of a town gate, where?
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A man with a donkey cart near a town gate, where? -
A monumental town wall with towers and a gate, where? -
A smiling textile worker with a child, a spindle and wool combs, where? -
Two camels and a town, where? -
A town wall and kasbah seen from without, where?
