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. We
>> would be
>> very interested in your responses.
>>
>> Please send any feedback to Mark Hook at [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Gail Durbin
>> Head of V&A Online
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