-----Original Message----- via Peter Brantley For those local to the Bay Area, the CEO of a startup (in NYC) called Tagasauris is speaking at the I-School. Tag is interesting because it utilizes open web data mining to enrich user (crowd sourced) tags. thus, a tag of (e.g.) "1906 SF Earthquake" would automatically create associations with other online data associated with that event. Tag has been used by Magnum Photos, and has great interest among the photo archive and museum community.
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/20120425 description at Amazon web services: https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/tagasauris "Tagasauris uses the web as a database to annotate images. Compared to other annotation systems, like the classic ones used within libraries, Tagasauris has the advantage that it evolves as the web grows. Another advantage of Tagasauris is each tag is backed by references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with rich, descriptive metadata payloads and their own URL's." and story on Magnum in the NY Times: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/crowd-sourcing-the-magnum-archive/ "Since quality control is the Achilles' heel of crowd-sourcing, each image will be reviewed by three to five participants before new information is posted. A name or term added to a picture will be linked automatically to broader information mined from other Web sources. A photo tagged "Joan Crawford" would also note what films she was in, what awards she won and to whom she was married." ______________________________________________ Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem +972-2-670-8064
