repost to get cross posting now I'm on both wmau list and commons list
2009/2/3 Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com
1 - Commons file information is actually more accurate with greater detail
compared to flickr images we have a greater degree of scrutiny ensuring that
the images are appropriate and freely licensed, also our scope isnt that of
flickr and we seek more images of record/encyclopaedic relevance. I have
already contacted PA on a number of occassion with errors in identifications
and spelling on image they already have
2 - All of our images are under a free license in accordance with both
policies and Australian laws the image source is listed, we can filter out
image from other sources by just creating another category call Picture
Australia and setting up its scope of being self made Australian images. As
PA sources include libraries they already have a number of duplicated
images, many of which dont even have the same description.
3 - There are already bots/scripts available that can identify recent
additions, and there are some good OS writers so having something created to
do the work shouldnt be a big issue its just a matter of finding someone
willing. Of course this would be an open source program which PA could use
else where in the future
4. - a Picture Australia category, and the software written to aquire
images from that category inparticular and from other categories in
particular wouldnt be a problem
2009/2/3 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com
Dear All,
[cross post to commons-l and wikimediaaustralia-l]
Picture Australia is interested in adding Commons photos to their service
but has several technical issues they would like to resolve first. Can we
help?
Picture Australia is an archive aggregation service run by the National
Library of Australia and aggregates searches across many Australian
institutions (such as the various state libraries, universities, government
departments) and also Flickr. You can see the project at
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html and you can see their other
contributors at
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/participants/index.html
This is a quote from the email written to me from PA:
At the moment our main source of contemporary images is Flickr and we are
interested in investigating other sources of contemporary images. There are
a few issues with the Wikimedia Commons that we foresee:
1- the metadata quality is highly variable. With Flickr contributors are
able to provide a fair bit of additional metadata about their images.
Before pulling images in from Wikipedia we'd need the data to adhere to
some basic standards. (see
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/metadata.html).
2- there are certainly a number of images that have been sourced from
Picture Australia or our contributors. Pulling these in would create an
issue with duplicate images and would likely confuse users if they were
attempting to buy a copy.
3- Wikipedia doesn't have an OAI interface so we would need to look at how
to ingest the data.
I would add a 4th concern, and I'm not sure if this is a big problem or
easily fixed, is that most of the pictures on Commons are not relevant to
PA. Would we be able to provide a feed of only the relevant categories?
All the best,
- Liam Wyatt
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