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I don't know if I am duplicating what someone else has said here (sorry) But I am not keen on not being rewarded with a point when I say there is no good crop or zoom. Or if I select a good crop, but say there is no good zoom I get no point (I know these aren't points, but images completed) this felt disappointing and seemed to encourage me as a user to accept poor crops or zooms to get a point, rather then do the right thing and reject the duds. Thanks Jim === On 4 Feb 2010, at 18:42, Gail Durbin wrote: > Thank you to the various people who have responded so quickly to the > V&A Crowdsourcing activity. > http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ > > I am very grateful for mentions of bugs and glitches and Mark Hook > will be dealing with some of the more technical issues. (I should > mention that John Stephen one of our developers has been responsible > for putting this together.) This functionality will probably stay in > Beta for a while. > > I loved 'Top of the Crops' and we will think about a more games-like > interface. If Frankie is a betting man then he needs to take account > of a few other features. Yes, we are showing each image to several > people, so that one nutcase cannot cause havoc. We aim not to check > every image but to have the cropping selection work automatically. > Also 116,867 images is a moving target. Search the Collections pulls > its content from our collections information system so records and > images are being added all the time. > > The greatest benefits will be to our moving wall on the home page > which is the browse area of Search the Collections. It is currently > spoilt by poor crops, black edges and colour bars. The cropped > images also act as the thumbnails on search return pages. If people > make crop choices on aesthetic grounds so much the better. This does > not seem a major issue as you can get quickly to the object record > where there is always an image of the whole object and sometimes a > choice of images. > > Hope that answers some of your queries. Keep cropping. > Gail > >>>> Frankie Roberto <[log in to unmask]> 03 February 2010 >>> > Very nice! I just spent 5 mins working through a dozen or so objects > - it's > pretty compelling. > > It's also quite a nice interface choosing, cropping and zooming > images full > stop. I spent hours and hours doing this by hand in Photoshop whilst > at the > Science Museum - even with handy presets and shortcuts, it was a > time-consuming process. > > Good luck with reaching the 116,867 target. We could place bets on > how long > it'll take to reach it. My money is on 1 year, 2 months - though > that's a > complete stab in the dark. > > Frankie > > On 3 February 2010 15:35, Gail Durbin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in Beta >> attached to >> Search the Collections: >> http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ >> This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. 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