GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/Netherlands report
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Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland
Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense
Last August the Dutch Ministry of Defense donated a collection of 1142 pre-WWII aerial photographs, in collaboration with Arne Wossink of Wikimedia Nederland. These images offer unique information on (destroyed) cityscapes, military objects, islands, castles, dams and dikes, and town and country planning in general.
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Waag, Amsterdam -
Paleis voor Volksvlijt in Amsterdam before... -
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Leiden city hall on the Breestraat after the fire of 1929. -
Rotterdam city centre before destruction by the German airforce in 1940. City hall at the right. -
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Inundation of Gennep by the Meuse, 1926 -
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Kornwerderzand, Afsluitdijk -
Fortress and town of Naarden -
Demolition of a bridge near Nieuwersluis -
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Urk as an island before reclamation in the Noordoostpolder. The WWI internment camp for Belgian, British and French military is visible.
[Text donation, national library] Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license
- The KB, national library of the Netherlands has released most of the Dutch texts on Dutch philosophers on its website for reuse under CC-BY 4.0. Copyright protected images on those webpages are not included in the release.
- See the list of URLs of the released texts, also available in this PDF (in Dutch).
- More information ... (in Dutch)
- First result: a (formerly) missing article about the philosopher Heleen Pott has been written based on this text donation
--OlafJanssen (talk) 12:02, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia manual
A recurring problem at editathons and other (online) events revolving around Wikipedia is that help pages on how to contribute to the online encyclopedia are spread all over the platform. In December, Wikimedia Nederland released a new manual that brings together tips, tricks, do's and dont's on how to become a contributor to the world's largest online free encyclopedia. The draft version can be read here.
Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland
Dutch heritage organisation Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland made its first image donations to Wikimedia Commons in the last quarter of 2017. Just over 200 images on various aspects of the Roman Limes were made available, including photographs of Roman re-enactments, and of Roman artifacts. The latter come from the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, the Dutch national antiquities museum, which recently updated its copyright and re-use conditions to permit uploads of their content to Wikimedia Commons and other CC platforms. The collection be accessed here. The subset from the RMO can be accessed here.
