Liam Wyatt wrote: > Dear All, > > [cross post to commons-l and wikimediaaustralia-l] > > Picture Australia is interested in adding Commons photos to their > service but has several technical issues they would like to resolve > first. Can we help? > > Picture Australia is an archive aggregation service run by the National > Library of Australia and aggregates searches across many Australian > institutions (such as the various state libraries, universities, > government departments) and also Flickr. You can see the project at > http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html and you can see their other > contributors at > http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/participants/index.html
Great! > This is a quote from the email written to me from PA: > At the moment our main source of contemporary images is Flickr and we > are interested in investigating other sources of contemporary images. > There are a few issues with the Wikimedia Commons that we foresee: > 1- the metadata quality is highly variable. With Flickr contributors > are able to provide a fair bit of additional metadata about their > images. Before pulling images in from Wikipedia we'd need the data to > adhere to some basic standards. (see > http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/metadata.html). That would mean adding Dublin Core metadata. A good target by itself. Perhaps a task for a toolserver app? > 2- there are certainly a number of images that have been sourced from > Picture Australia or our contributors. Pulling these in would create an > issue with duplicate images and would likely confuse users if they were > attempting to buy a copy. They shouldn't have problems in keeping a hash of each image they store to avoid duplicates. We can't guess > 3- Wikipedia doesn't have an OAI interface so we would need to look at > how to ingest the data. Use the API? http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&generator=allimages&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|timestamp|user|comment|url|size|sha1|mime|metadata|bitdepth > I would add a 4th concern, and I'm not sure if this is a big problem or > easily fixed, is that most of the pictures on Commons are not relevant > to PA. Would we be able to provide a feed of only the relevant categories? > > All the best, > - Liam Wyatt We could, but we shouldn't guess what they really want. My concern: What about images we have to delete? Does it support easy removing from their index? _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
