I thought some of you might find this useful/interesting:
Social Media sites: photo metadata test results
'We have uploaded a test image with embedded metadata and have checked
if any of the embedded values are displayed and if so, which ones. As
a next step we have tried to save the picture from a Social Media web
site or system on our computer and then we checked what metadata
fields are still embedded.'
http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-test-results.php
Cheers, Mia
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On 28 January 2014 15:51, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> To anyone who hasn't tumed out from this thread, you might find this
> interesting - http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/copyright-public-consultation%3A-europeana-responds-have-you
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> James Morley
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>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Thanks Sarah, as you say, I think the reality is that the only possible way
>> for any sort of progress is nagging from all parties.
>>
>> Two specific comments though:
>>
>> - you say even those who should know are "confused about embedded
>> software". Absolutely! I have been looking at a few projects where I simply
>> wanted to do the right thing and employ best practice, but boy was it hard
>> to find anything to help me quickly and easily work out what I needed to do,
>> and how to do it.
>>
>> - "museums are wary of placing images on social media" do you mean the
>> likes of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram? I simply cannot fathom why
>> anyone would hesitate to share a screen-res image on their own accounts on
>> any of those, any more than I can understand any museum preventing visitors
>> taking photographs and sharing them. Surely we've moved on from that?
>>
>> And on a lighter note - especially since it's Friday once again ... I know
>> you and several others here have seen this, but I thought I'd share it here
>> too.
>>
>> http://culturepics.org is a hack I threw together last weekend which was
>> initially intended to be a placehold.it / placekitten.com type service, but
>> based on open access cultural heritage collections (initially about 40,000
>> images from Flickr Commons, and I'm just looking to integrate many more
>> api-accessible records from e.g. Eurapeana). It's grown provide a simple to
>> use discovery tool, and I've had a few other interesting ideas to extend it.
>> You'll be pleased to hear that the plan (not yet implemented - see above
>> about what and how!) is even if they have a CC0/PD license to embed
>> attribution and basic information into the metadata of the derivative images
>> it serves up, which in the case of Flickr images is actually sticking back
>> in what they stripped out (or from what I've seen from many of the source
>> images, adding in what the original owner never had there in the first
>> place!).
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> James Morley
>> www.jamesmorley.net / @jamesinealing
>> www.whatsthatpicture.com / @PhotosOfThePast
>> www.apennypermile.com / @APennyPerMile
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Sarah Saunders <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> I completely agree with what you;re saying and that's why the IPTC Photo
>>> Metadata Group is emphasising the role of technology and software companies
>>> in trying to solve the attribution problem. The issue though, is that most
>>> don't want to change anything unless and until their users ask for it.
>>>
>>> At IPTC our MD tried to get hold of the social media organisations when we
>>> did our survey of metadata retention (or put otherwise, stripping). We
>>> couldn't get a single response from any of the companies, so the only way
>>> forward is to make as much noise as possible outside, and publish the
>>> findings so that others can understand the issues and start to ask for
>>> metadata to be taken seriously.
>>>
>>> Here's the campaign site (set up by IPTC Photo Metadata Working group)
>>>
>>> http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/
>>>
>>> and the results of our social media metadata survey
>>>
>>> http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-test-results.php
>>>
>>> The cultural sector has a long way to go - even hardened picture library
>>> software companies (with a few honorable exceptions) are confused about
>>> embedded software. Many people working in heritage organisations are in hoc
>>> to their tech departments who tell them 'it can't be done' or 'it's not a
>>> priority'. Some museums are wary of placing images on social media, and so
>>> they should be. Perhaps the social media companies (I've said this before!)
>>> will listen to some very large national institutions.
>>>
>>> It's great that we are talking about it!
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 Jan 2014, at 17:30, James Morley wrote:
>>>
>>> > Interesting piece. The polarised comments frustrate me though and don't
>>> > really serve to take the argument anywhere. Start saying 'thou shalt
>>> > not'
>>> > to a kid won't get you anywhere, just as citing details of outdated
>>> > copyright law aren't exactly going to encourage someone on social media
>>> > to
>>> > start thinking about the precise way in which they should use an image.
>>> >
>>> > As I said there, it strikes me that the basic problem lies in both the
>>> > nature of the medium and the technology that supports it. Combine that
>>> > with
>>> > a confused bunch of 'users' with no clear guidance on what is best
>>> > practice
>>> > or even just decent, let alone the law, and it's a recipe for the chaos
>>> > that ensues. And the sad thing is that in almost all cases no-one sets
>>> > out
>>> > to intentionally upset anyone, and if they had a helping hand they'd be
>>> > more than happy to do the correct thing (as this case shows with the
>>> > fact
>>> > that three people took the trouble to provide attribution, even though
>>> > they
>>> > got it wrong!).
>>> >
>>> > Wonderfully naive, but isn't technology part of the answer? When you
>>> > publish an image, embed copyright information. When it is saved,
>>> > modified,
>>> > shared ensure that that information persists (one of the almost
>>> > ubiquitous
>>> > failings of current social media platforms, which strip out metadata, as
>>> > we've discussed before). Then wherever it is published make sure that
>>> > that
>>> > information is readily accessible. For example on Flickr you can see a
>>> > page
>>> > of EXIF data extracted from the uploaded image (even though they strip
>>> > it
>>> > from derivatives!) and why not make a right-click option available in
>>> > every
>>> > modern web browser to view basic exif/iptc data on any image? Then that
>>> > crucial trail would not be lost at every step.
>>> >
>>> > ---
>>> > James Morley
>>> > www.jamesmorley.net / @jamesinealing
>>> > www.whatsthatpicture.com / @PhotosOfThePast
>>> > www.apennypermile.com / @APennyPerMile
>>> > <http://www.apennypermile.com>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Angela Murphy
>>> > <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> A salutary tale about image attribution (with thanks to David Riecks
>>> >> and
>>> >> David Sanger) - and a reminder that links should be to the original
>>> >> copyright holder where possible
>>> >> http://www.davidsanger.com/blog/the-piano-player-of-kiev
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >>
>>> >> On 17 Jan 2014, at 09:46, James Morley wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hi, a 'quick' Friday question ...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> If you are planning to use images under a license that requires
>>> >>> attribution, but the mechanism for attribution is not specified, which
>>> >>> of the following would people deem acceptable?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - display an image on a web page and having a full citation and link
>>> >>> (ok, I think that's an obvious yes)
>>> >>> - display an image on a website with attribution in a hidden
>>> >>> "title=xyz" attribute
>>> >>> - give generic credits for images at the end of a page, or even on a
>>> >>> separate page
>>> >>> - overlay an image with a text 'watermark' attribution (but does that
>>> >>> create a derivative, which gets even more confusing!)
>>> >>> - embed all attribution details in image metadata
>>> >>>
>>> >>> One of the reasons for asking is that most of the licenses I have seen
>>> >>> seem to be focused around web usage, but what about mobile apps,
>>> >>> in-gallery interactives etc?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I appreciate that licences vary and some will specify exact
>>> >>> requirements, but I ask the question in a generic way, and perhaps
>>> >>> also thinking in the spirit of the law, rather than just the letter.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks, James
>>> >>>
>>> >>> PS taking the most obvious example of Creative Commons, it seems that
>>> >>> they have in part addressed this with 4.0 which says "In 4.0, the
>>> >>> manner of attribution is explicitly allowed to be reasonable to the
>>> >>> means, medium, and context of how one shares a work." (source:
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions#Attribution_reasonable_to_means.2C_medium.2C_and_context
>>> >>> with further detail, though no real explanation, at
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions#Detailed_attribution_comparison_chart
>>> >> ).
>>> >>> But if you wanted to use a CC-BY 2.0 licensed image you'd be
>>> >>> restricted to the very first option, and should follow the guidelines
>>> >>> at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution
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