Hi Pat/Phil,
Thanks for chipping into this. I think I put a spanner in the works by using 'unique number'. I should have said a number that relates to the image. For what the vet school are using this process for, to attribute images that then get
used in other resources that are then themselves likely to become OER, this is unique enough. But I recognise for other uses, this might cause issues.
Cheers,
Steve
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http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=10&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=C0004P0038&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=C0004P0038&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=651bed0b0f58a1c9&biw=1152&bih=751
I doubted it could be unique, but google says it is.
I thought you could type in the keyword, but Xpert doesn't search the keywords it seems... err..... (note, that is a joke for those who get it, it is not a criticism)
But
Brings back one picture, so it's not unique, but unique enough?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Ian Piper
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This is a nice idea… what troubles me is the code. Where does the code come from, and how do you *know* it's unique? To be effective it needs to be guaranteed globally unique. Maybe it is, but if so how is it generated?
In my view a code like this should really be a URI with a guaranteed unique identifier at the bottom end. Not only guaranteed unique then but also lined up for use in linked data.
Ian.
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On 27 Oct 2011, at 15:26, Steven Stapleton wrote:
Afternoon all,Some of you may have seen this already as it has been circulated on twitter, but I thought it was worth sharing as an example of practical re-use.Liz Mossop from the Vet School at Nottingham blogged about using the Xpert Attribution service that searches flickr and Wikipedia for Creative Commons/public domain images and automatically adds attribution to the image. The post can be seen at http://mossposs.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/whats-that-funny-black-stripe-under-the-pictures-on-your-slides-how-to-become-an-xpert/.What is also interesting is that Liz and colleagues in the Vet School have uploaded a large number of photo’s to Flickr under CC licence http://www.flickr.com/people/nottinghamvets/. They have also taken it a stage further by adding a unique code to the metadata of each image which enables them to find the image with added attribution using the Xpert Attributor.For example, a horse uploaded in flickr with unique code ‘C0004P0038’ can then be searched for by that code in Xpert and by selecting the image with attribution from Xpert you end up with this. You can then save the image or embed it into PowerPoint.This offers a way of using flickr to generate attribution friendly images.Kind regards,SteveSteve StapletonOpen Nottingham – Project ManagerThe University of NottinghamRoom B158, Kings Meadow Campus0115 82 32351
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