On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:08 AM, James Heald <[email protected]> wrote:
> As well as exact duplicates, there may often also be different versions of
> the same painting with different lighting, or scans of slightly different
> reproductions of the same work.  I don't know whether the algorithm is
> permissive enough to pick all of these up, but as many as can be picked up
> would be good to tag as "other versions" of the same underlying image.
>
> In general, we probably wouldn't *remove* duplicate images, but we would
> want to identify them as versions of each other.
We probably need a good definition of all these terms, because people
tend to have different interpretations of a 'duplicate'. E.g., for me
a lower quality reproduction of a painting is a duplicate, but other
people on Commons define it more strictly: only 'downsized' versions
of a reproduction (that could also be made using the thumbnail
service) are considered to be duplicates. We also need to have
definitions for things like details, alternate angles, etcetera.

-- Hay

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