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Finland report

Hundreds of thousands of new photos released

By Susanna Ånäs, Nemo bis, Zache & Tuomas Nolvi @ Yle Archives

The Finnish Heritage Agency has made over 200 000 hi-res images freely accessible

The Finnish Heritage Agency has released over 200 000 high resolution images with the CC BY 4.0 license. Ismo Malinen, Chief Intendant of the Picture Collections writes in this blogpost High-resolution pictures made freely accessible – why? about the process of the reasoning that lead to making the images freely available – first in smaller resolution and finally in high resolution. The images are shared via a dedicated view in the Finnish national aggregator Finna.

The Picture Collections comprises of altogether 18 million images in the Ethnographic and Finno-Ugric Picture Collections, the Historical Picture Collection, the Press Photo Archive, the Architectural History Collection, and The Finnish Maritime Museum’s Picture Collection. They provide great opportunities for enriching for example the articles about the history of Finland once uploaded. Malinen writes: "It is already clear that the wonderful national collections will keep on becoming more open – for everyone’s benefit and amusement."

Bot uploading images to Wikimedia Commons

A semi-automatic bot operated by Zache has been busy at work already for a few years and commons:Category:Files uploaded by FinnaUploadBot already contains over 15k images. Bot's target is to add date, place, subject and the creator information in the structured data format. The copyright status of photos in this set can be complicated, because freedom of panorama in Finland is only partial: it applies to buildings but not statues, for instance. It's therefore all the more important to improve the metadata so that photos are associated to the place or subject.

Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle switches from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons for Open Access to cultural heritage

Finnish Broadcasting Company's Archives have started to publish their archive photographs to Wikimedia Commons instead of Flickr which they previously used. Yle Archives' open photograph collection at Wikimedia Commons contains over 270 pictures and the number is growing. Photograps are in the public domain.

  • Broadcast van with a wood gas generator, 1940s
    Broadcast van with a wood gas generator, 1940s
  • Radio announcer Ebba Jakobson-Lilius in a continuity unit, 1930s
    Radio announcer Ebba Jakobson-Lilius in a continuity unit, 1930s
  • Presidential candidate (later president) Urho Kekkonen speaking on the radio, 1956
    Presidential candidate (later president) Urho Kekkonen speaking on the radio, 1956
  • Device for airing films on tv and technician Jorma Rautakallio, 1958
    Device for airing films on tv and technician Jorma Rautakallio, 1958


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