Wow, what a nice and interesting browser extension. Congrats! Just a question: as far as I can see the tool doens't give the complete and correction licensing information, as the source is missing. Or I'm missleading?
Best Cornelius 2014-12-10 19:30 GMT+01:00 Jonas Öberg <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > thanks for all your help with answering questions and giving feedback > over the last couple of months. I'm happy to say that we're finally at > a stage where we've hashed 22,452,638 images from Wikimedia Commons > and launched Elog.io in public beta: http://elog.io/ > > Elog.io is an open API as well as browser plugins, that can query and > get information about images using a perceptual hash that's easy and > quick to calculate in a browser. > > What the browser extensions allow you to do is match an image you find > "in the wild" against Wikimedia Commons. If it can be matched against > an image from Commons, it'll show you the title, author, and license, > and give you links back to Wikimedia, the license, and a quick and > handy "Copy as HTML" to copy the image and attribution as a HTML > snippet for pasting into Word, LibreOffice, Wordpress, etc. > > Our API provides lookup functions to find information using a URL (the > Commons' page name URL) or using the perceptual hash. You get > information back as JSON in W3C Media Annotations format. of course, > the information you get back is no better than the one provided by the > Commons API, so if you already have a page name URL, you may as well > query it directly, and rely on our API only for searching by > perceptual hashes. > > The algorithm we use for calculating perceptual hashes, which you'll > need to query our API, is at http://blockhash.io/ > > > Sincerely, > Jonas > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -- Cornelius Kibelka International Affairs Werkstudent | student trainee Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 219158260 http://wikimedia.de <http://wikimedia.de/>Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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