James - one could also argue that the metadata stripping could also serve to make the provenance of the material harder to trace. So, perhaps not stupid, but intentionally evasive? JP
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From: "James Morley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Pinterest and non-self-hosted / scraped images
Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 16:48
I recall the old thread around this, and at the time doing some testing. I
too am normally quite relaxed (but then I'm mainly dealing with my personal
collection of images, not an institution's) but what bugs me is that
Pinterest in creating those surrogates strips out all the IPTC/EXIF data in
any images, which just seems stupid!
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Bonewell, Perry <
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> Depending on traffic and so on you might not want a service to hot link.
> I'd say it is preferable for them to cache the images provided they link
> back.
>
> Then again I'm probably too relaxed about this sort of thing :)
>
> Perhaps I'd start getting nervous if there was a wholesale reposting of
> many items ( say 25+ or whatever your threshold might be ) without some
> kind of agreement with the service user or the site itself
>
> Perry
>
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> Mike Ellis
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> Subject: Pinterest and non-self-hosted / scraped images
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> Last one this week. I promise. Maybe.
>
> I was admiring the LACMA Pinterest board - http://pinterest.com/lacma/ -
> and then started doing some right clicking. Up until now I'd perhaps
> naively assumed that Pinterest, a bit like Culture Grid, stored only
> metadata and the embedded images were still hosted on the original sites.
> But it turns out they're all cached, and stored on Pinterest itself.
>
> Actually, this doesn't surprise me at all, as it's what anyone would do if
> they were building a service like that - but I am interested in the fact
> that museums - who are traditionally worried about "losing" their images
> are ok with this.
>
> What's the score? Are we ok with this because of the traffic it generates?
> Is it ok because these resources all have links through to the original
> page? Or are we finally accepting that stuff on the web is...on the web...?
>
> I'm asking because I'm in the middle of designing something museum/object
> related and I'm wondering which route to go down :-)
>
> cheers!
>
> Mike
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