Hello all,
Some of you may have
come across Open Attribute
(
http://openattribute.com/) which was a
project that came from Mozilla
Drumbeat festival 2010 . Well, this
Friday is the start of the
festival for this year, and we've been
tinkering on some new browser
plugins.
All are very much in
beta, but should work (as they are quite simple).
Firstly, if
your looking for licensed information in google (or any
other search
engine) it can be hard to find. We expect people will
primarily
search via google / bing for content, and so should ideally
build a
service round this.
So we built a browser plugin which (when you
click on a button) checks
the pages linked to from the page you are
on (it can take a few while,
depending on links), and then puts a
border round the link
highlighting whether it finds a licence (this
uses some RDFa, some
guess work) showing you if the link is licensed
or not.
Firefox version
(
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openattribute-link/)
Chrome
version
(
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cegnlobohmoekpdicnplajegemnjbhgp)
Our
second plugin works using HTML5 magic. It searches the page you
are
on for pictures, and should it find a licence on the page, it will
turn
the picture into a licensed picture without you having to do
anything
(in firefox at least, Chrome is slightly longer winded). So
if you
search on flickr, or find a licensed picture you like
somewhere,
it'll put the licensing on it for you straightaway, and
then you can
download / drag it / use it elsewhere.
Firefox version
