Dear Perian, Thank you for responding and I am glad you enjoyed the crowdsourced cropping activity.
You ask a lot of very interesting questions. Whilst it would be nice to be able to say that we will be able to use this to report back on people's preferences we have not set up the back end to do this. Our aim has been to improve our crops and engage with users. Because we wanted to set this up to work automatically we are unable to quantify types of crops. We will be able to report back on changes we make to the Beta version. It may be possible to get a sense of the choices by looking at the browse wall but even that is quite difficult as what appears each time changes. Sorry if this is disappointing news, Best wishes Gail Gail Durbin Head of V&A Online >>> "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> 05 February 2010 >>> Hi Gail: Once again, you and your team have done a fabulous job. I've spent an hour or so having a lot of fun playing with the app and I'm curious whether you'll be studying the responses and reporting results back to the community? For example: Do people like extreme close-ups for the thumbnails or do they prefer full views? Do they want the professional, black backdrop images or are they selecting the brightly lit, informal images? Angled or head-on shots? Opened or closed (for things like decorative boxes and the like) Are they selecting contextual group shots, or individual items when the record pertains to the individual (like a bowl from a set)? Are people selecting full views for the crops, or detailed shots that cut out a lot of detail but makes for a more interesting image? Frames or no frames? Offset up or down, or left or right? I think this app would be a great opportunity to determine what people are really looking for from our photographs, even when we don't have a program to help us crop and adjust our images. Thanks and congratulations! Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley, CA -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Gail Durbin Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 7:41 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] V&A Crowdsourcing Application The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in Beta attached to Search the Collections: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. We would be very interested in your responses. 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