If the metadata dataset license allow it, it would be interesting to import
it into Labs as a database.


2014-07-05 8:47 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>:

> 12 GB of metadata and 50 TB of files released by Yahoo!. «Plus about 49
> million of the photos are geotagged!»
>
> http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-million-creative-commons-flickr-images-for
>
> Can this dataset help linking projects' articles and Wikidata items to
> the images we miss? I can imagine
> * a FIST expansion querying the data in some way to find flickr images
> "nearby" a geocoded page of ours,
> * a bot mapping photo IDs from geolocated Wikidata entries and then a
> bot importing on Commons those we lack,
> * a Wikidata Game to aid automation in some of the above.
> Where an image is in a non-free Creative Commons license, we can
> flickrmail the author to relicense it, the success rate is typically
> high (we could also do this by bot, if we're able to automatically write
> a message mentioning the specific files and the pages where we'd use them).
>
> Nemo
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