Commons:Batch uploading/State Library of North Carolina

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State Library of North Carolina[edit]

  • Description of Content

The State Library of North Carolina has over 10,000 photographs taken during a statewide survey of North Carolina's cultural heritage institutions, including libraries, museums, archives, and historic sites. The survey was conducted as part of the North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online project (NC ECHO), which surveyed all 100 counties in the state, and ultimately identified and photographed over 950 institutions between 2001 and 2009. The collection includes images of building interiors and exteriors, historical marker signage, displays, and exhibits. The State Library is also the official depository for all state agency publications, and has an extensive collection of digitized historical publications on North Carolina and its people.

The State Library is interested in adding the NC ECHO images to Wikimedia Commons (I, Retrent, work for the State Library), and we are particularly interested in doing so in a way that takes advantage of the recent and forthcoming integration of Commons and Wikidata, and the Structured Data Project.

The NC ECHO images are currently online through the North Carolina Digital Collections, a portal jointly managed by the State Library and State Archives of North Carolina. The images can be found at http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/home/collections/nc-echo-project. The images are described, and it is relatively easy to capture metadata and image links in whatever format is required for upload tools. State Library staff are available to facilitate.

Example images:


  • Which license tag(s) should be applied?

The photographs were created by a North Carolina government agency, and as such are public records and the State Library considers them to be in the public domain.

The Template:PD-SLNC license was developed by the State Library and Wikimedia DC as part of the Summer of Monuments Project: It is based on the State Library's official rights statement http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/63754, and it may be used for these images.


  • Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages? Do you think a special template should be created?

Template:Photograph is likely sufficient. However, we are unsure about how to take advantage of the recent integration of wikidata and Commons (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-December/005030.html), and whether we would need to use a special template to insert Wikidata links in fields like Depicted place. Once uploaded, we'd like to add authority control links to the buildings/locations depicted in the images.

Also, five NC ECHO images were uploaded manually as part of the Summer of Monuments project under the username NCandbeyond. These images were uploaded with Template:Information, and we are unsure of how to change the template so that we can enter additional metadata.

Retrent (talk) 16:56, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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