Applying for loan of a scanner
Wikimedia UK has been given two Epson Expression 10000XL A3 scanners by the Natural History Museum.
These are available for loan to museums, galleries and other institutions that have interesting material that they wish to digitise.
To apply to borrow one of these machines, Email GLAM
Wikimedia.org.UK with information as to what sort of material you intend to scan and how long you want a scanner for and any dates that are sutable or unsuitable for you.
A condition of borrowing these machines is that a copy of the scans created must be released on [Commons] under one of the Open licenses that it accepts such as Public Domain, CC0 or CC-BY-SA.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q Can you put us in touch with a Wikipedia volunteer who can advise on how we categorisation and naming conventions for these files. A Yes, depending on where you are and what you have we can probably find a volunteer to guide you through that process.
Q Can we have a template on each of the images saying that it is of an object in our collections? A Yes
Q Can we get metrics such as page views for these images? A Metrics are available for pages viwes from other Wikimedia sites such as Wikipedia.
Q Can we just release a medium resolution image so that serious commercial users will come to us for High resolution images? A Not if you are borrowing our equipment to do the scanning with.