Resuscitating a thread from a while back, and picking up on Scott's
mention of Flickr here....
Scott Wilson wrote:
> The answer to all these questions is, to my mind, "Flickr". Or more
> precisely, the combination of features such as search using license
> choice, creative commons licensing that can be set as a default for all
> uploads or per image on submission, annotations, powerful community
> features, open APIs, integration with iPhoto and other desktop photo
> software, smart uploading (users don't need to worry about format,
> resolution etc), feeds galore, and very snazzy tools for uploading,
> organizing, and tagging,. There has been some work too on using RDF for
> annotations in Flickr - I can't remember where the page was, but it was
> mostly in Japanese! Oh, and you don't need to register or subscribe to
> make use of it and download images - thats a big plus in my book.
>
> So anyway, that's the competition to judge anything by IMHO.
Lorcan Dempsey reports in his weblog [1] that Picture Australia [2] are
making use of Flickr as a "content provider". They've set up a couple of
groups on Flickr, users upload images to Flickr and add them to those
groups, and the PA aggregator harvests metadata (and thumbnail, I
think?), and surfaces them through the PA presentation service. So PA
takes advantage of the (easy to use, community-based etc) Flickr
tools/services that Scott describes above.
"Putting the library in the user environment, rather than expecting the
user to be in the library environment", as Lorcan describes it.
Pete
[1] http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000916.html
[2] http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
[3] http://www.pictureaustralia.org/Flickr.html
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