repost to get cross posting now I'm on both wmau list and commons list 2009/2/3 Gnangarra <[email protected]>
> > 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 <[email protected]> > >> 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 >> >> -- >> Email - [email protected] >> Phone - +61 (0)434 056 914 >> Skype - Wittylama >> Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]] >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> > > > -- > GN. > http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/ > -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/
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