I don't know if this campaign as been posted to this list. but I think it's relevant: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/elog-io-building-provenance-for-digital-works/x/9552809#_=_
Aubrey On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Jonas Öberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean-Frédéric, > > yes - you're right, I missed that. So sorry!! > > > > We probably cannot scan the Internetz and running every single image > out > > > there against elog.io > > No, for that purpose, I think Google Image Reverse Search of TinEye does > a fair enough work. Involves a bit of manual digging, but scanning the > Internet is indeed something that require quite a bit more resources than > we could muster :-) > > > but do you by any chance log the successful hits in elog.io ? > > Yes, we do. At the moment, we don't do anything with it though. What > we would love to do is to take the information we gather - essentially > pairs > of images - and run that through PyBossa or similar crowdsourcing platform > so that people can contribute to making matches between images by answering > the question "Are these two images the same?" > > If we get more than a few people saying that they are, we can make that > connection in the Elog.io database, which could not only trigger some > action on "re-use", but which would also make the information about that > image pop up automatically when someone browses it without needing to > separately click the "Query" button. > > We do not want to add these matches directly without some validation since > that would open up the possibility of abuse. But we think the crowdsourcing > could work well, and that in itself opens up the possibility of using the > same crowd to gather even more information. > > Sincerely, > Jonas > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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