[CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons
There is an enormous body of open photographs contributed by a myriad of libraries and museums to flickr. Is anyone aware of any efforts to associate machine tags with these photos, for example to georeference with geonames machine tags, tag people with VIAF ids, or categorize with LCSH ids? A quick Google search turns up nothing. There's a little bit of this going on with Pleiades ids for ancient geography ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pleiades%3A*/), but there's enormous potential in library-produced images. I think it would be incredibly powerful to aggregate images of manuscripts created by Thomas Jefferson (VIAF id: 41866059) across institutions that have digitized and uploaded them to flickr. Ethan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons
Cool idea - Images in the Library of Congress Flickr pool have LCCNs - record numbers - but that kind of just takes you back to LoC's catalog - eg. This lovely hand tinted cased image of a Civil War soldier his wife on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/9158148335/ includes this info - Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519 which gets you to here: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010650519 If you know to go to LoC's catalog and search there. I wonder if there's not more going on because many libraries, archives museums feel that the images posted to Flickr are sort of just for fun and the real thing is at the institution? my 2 cents and worth every penny. deb On Jul 10, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: There is an enormous body of open photographs contributed by a myriad of libraries and museums to flickr. Is anyone aware of any efforts to associate machine tags with these photos, for example to georeference with geonames machine tags, tag people with VIAF ids, or categorize with LCSH ids? A quick Google search turns up nothing. There's a little bit of this going on with Pleiades ids for ancient geography ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pleiades%3A*/), but there's enormous potential in library-produced images. I think it would be incredibly powerful to aggregate images of manuscripts created by Thomas Jefferson (VIAF id: 41866059) across institutions that have digitized and uploaded them to flickr. Ethan dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro UW-Madison SLIS Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849
Re: [CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edu wrote: I wonder if there's not more going on because many libraries, archives museums feel that the images posted to Flickr are sort of just for fun and the real thing is at the institution? Political factors could be at play. Many ways of making images more discoverable and usable don't advance local institutional goals with branding and demonstrating benefit for those who pay our bills. This is sometimes counterproductive, however well intentioned the goals are. But it's still something we have to work with.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons
Ethan The Biodiversity Heritage Library has pushed about 75k of our images to our Flickr stream and we do machine tagging . At least 2 machine tags are automatically added to every image when we upload them to Flickr - an id and a page url for the original source for the image in the BHL portal e.g. - bhl:page=42123174http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/tags/bhl%3Apage%3D42123174/ - dc:identifier=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42123174http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/tags/dc%3Aidentifier%3Dhttpbiodiversitylibraryorgpage42123174/ We also encourage users to add machine tags for the species names of the plants and animals depicted in the images in order for those images to be more efficiently searched by users and also for our images to be automatically upload to species pages within the Encyclopedia of Life. More info here http://ala13.ala.org/files/ala13/Flickr%20Tagging%20Process_0.jpg Unfortunately machine tagging the content of an image is very much a manual process and requires humans. We don't have the staff to do this ourselves so we have so far relied on crowdsourcing and have held some Flickr tagging parties towards this effort. http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/05/partying-with-bhl-tagging-flickr-images.html We would love to hear other libraries efforts to add machine tags to their Flickr images. Trish Rose-Sandler Data Analyst, Biodiversity Heritage Library On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: There is an enormous body of open photographs contributed by a myriad of libraries and museums to flickr. Is anyone aware of any efforts to associate machine tags with these photos, for example to georeference with geonames machine tags, tag people with VIAF ids, or categorize with LCSH ids? A quick Google search turns up nothing. There's a little bit of this going on with Pleiades ids for ancient geography ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pleiades%3A*/), but there's enormous potential in library-produced images. I think it would be incredibly powerful to aggregate images of manuscripts created by Thomas Jefferson (VIAF id: 41866059) across institutions that have digitized and uploaded them to flickr. Ethan
