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| [[File:QRpedia_codes_at_Birmingham_Moor_Street_Railway_Station_4_edit.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Staff member Charmaine scans a QRpedia code.]] | | [[File:INF3-96_Food_Production_Dig_for_Victory_Artist_Peter_Fraser.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Dig for Victory! Image by artist Peter Fraser (1888-1950).]] |
| ;Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station | | ;Pic for victory! We team up with The National Archives to bring war art to public domain |
| There's a new way for visitors to Birmingham's historic Moor Street station to connect with its past thanks to a clever new technology called QRpedia – in fact, it's the first railway station in the world to make use of the technology.
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| | We've recently been working with our friends from The National Archives to bring a collection of 2,000 or so war art images into the public domain. This is the result of a digitisation grant made by Wikimedia UK to enable these works to be shared online. |
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| | The first group of 350 or so images is available in this gallery on Wimikedia Commons and includes works from some 120 artists whose work may be freely available for the first time thanks to this project. |
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| | The collection includes some of the most famous pieces of war art produced in the UK, including the famous Dig for Victory and Careless Talk Costs Lives campaigns. |
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| QRpedia codes – a variation of QR (or Quick Response) codes – are objects that can be scanned using a smartphone, which then direct you to a Wikipedia page about the object or location, in the language used by the phone – so providing multi-lingual content to overseas and local visitors alike.
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