Commons:Batch uploading/USDA NRCS Plants Database

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USDA NRCS Plants Database[edit]

  • Source to upload from: http://plants.usda.gov/
    • Do the media URLs follow a pattern? Yes.
    • Does the site have an API? No.
    • What else could ease uploading? (is the site valid XHTML, do they use a WCM…?) valid XHTML
    • Did you contact the site owner? No.
  • Describe the works to be uploaded in detail (audio files, images by …): Public domain: 10771 photos and 7064 line drawings, with species information for categorization. There are other copyrighted images as well, some of which may be freely licensed.
  • Which license tag(s) should be applied?

{{PD-USGov-USDA-NRCS}}

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

Opinions[edit]

@Guanaco: There is a lot of copyrighted material within these images, e.g. [1] [2]. (Just because this is a U.S. government web site this does not mean all the material is U.S. government material and by this means freely usable!) Actually I have not found too many images that really can be used (e.g. [3]). You should at least provide a procedure how to distinguish between copyrighted and free material. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 11:02, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Reinhard Kraasch: The gallery search function [4] has a filter by copyright status. [5]
I've found that the URLs linked by the thumbnails provide species information within <title>: https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=HACA2&photoID=haca2_003_ahp.jpg#
The search is navigable with &page=2, 3, 4, etc.
I'm actually interested in scripting this myself now, though it would be my first batch upload task. Guanaco (talk) 14:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Guanaco: Well, just go on... On the other hand it always is a good idea to have a second opinion with such a batch upload - especially for the non-technical aspects. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 20:52, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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