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
>
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