Re: [CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons

[Trish Rose-Sandler]

Ethan

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has pushed about 75k of our images to our
Flickr stream and we do machine tagging .  At least 2 machine tags are
automatically added to every image when we upload them to Flickr - an id
and a page url for the original source for the image in the BHL portal
e.g.

   - 
bhl:page=42123174<http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/tags/bhl%3Apage%3D42123174/>
   - 
dc:identifier=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42123174<http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/tags/dc%3Aidentifier%3Dhttpbiodiversitylibraryorgpage42123174/>




We also encourage users to add machine tags for the species names of the
plants and animals depicted in the images in order for those images to be
more efficiently searched by users and also for our images to be
automatically upload to species pages within the Encyclopedia of Life.
More info here
http://ala13.ala.org/files/ala13/Flickr%20Tagging%20Process_0.jpg

Unfortunately machine tagging the content of an image is very much a manual
process and requires humans.  We don't have the staff to do this ourselves
so we have so far relied on crowdsourcing and have held some Flickr tagging
parties towards this effort.
http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/05/partying-with-bhl-tagging-flickr-images.html

We would love to hear other libraries efforts to add machine tags to their
Flickr images.

Trish Rose-Sandler
Data Analyst, Biodiversity Heritage Library



On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Ethan Gruber  wrote:

> There is an enormous body of open photographs contributed by a myriad of
> libraries and museums to flickr.  Is anyone aware of any efforts to
> associate machine tags with these photos, for example to georeference with
> geonames machine tags, tag people with VIAF ids, or categorize with LCSH
> ids?  A quick Google search turns up nothing.  There's a little bit of this
> going on with Pleiades ids for ancient geography (
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pleiades%3A*/), but there's enormous
> potential in library-produced images.
>
> I think it would be incredibly powerful to aggregate images of manuscripts
> created by Thomas Jefferson (VIAF id: 41866059) across institutions that
> have digitized and uploaded them to flickr.
>
> Ethan
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

[Trish Rose-Sandler]

Michael,

If you think your use falls under Fair Use you may find the recently
released document from the Visual Resources Association useful

*Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study*. *
http://www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRAFairUseGuidelinesFinal.pdf*.

Trish Rose-Sandler
Data Analyst, Biodiversity Heritage Library Project
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Beanworks  wrote:

> I think what Cary is trying to say is "welcome to the fun world of
> copyright!"
>
> No, you shouldn't assume copyright was not renewed. You will need to
> determine (1) who the copyright holder is/was and (2) whether the copyright
> has lapsed. This is not always an easy task, which is why you need to
> document your good faith efforts (which will, of course, be exhaustive).
>
> Carol
>
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Cary Gordon  wrote:
>
> > Copyright law requires that you make a good-faith effort to find the
> > copyright owners. If you document such effort and they sue you, this
> > can weigh heavily in your favor. There are two obvious caveats: a) You
> > can still get sued, not to mention annoying cease-and-desist letters;
> > and 2) They could still win.
> >
> > Being that we are, for the most part, not art critics, you could
> > consider creating original art. You might get mocked, particularly
> > after a few beers, but that's just the way we roll. Of course, if you
> > buy beer, that will reduce any mock risk.
> >
> > Cary
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Doran, Michael D  wrote:
> >> I was hoping to re-use/re-purpose a couple of 1962 Seattle World's Fair
> images found on the interwebs [1][2].  Both images were originally created
> for souvenir decals.
> >>
> >> According to the U.S. Copyright Office's "Copyrights Basics" [3]
> section on works originally created and published or registered before
> January 1, 1978, "copyright endured for a first term of 28 years from the
> date it was secured" -- i.e. for these images, from 1962 to 1990.  It goes
> on to say that "During the last (28th) year of the first term, the
> copyright was eligible for renewal."  This however, was *not* an automatic
> renewal.
> >>
> >> So, unless the copyright was explicitly renewed in 1990, the images are
> in the public domain.  Since these images were for souvenir decals (rather
> than something like a poster), I'm inclined to think the original copyright
> owner probably didn't renew the copyright.  However, I don't know who the
> original copyright owner is and really have no way of finding out, and
> therefore I can't ascertain whether or not the copyright was renewed.
> >>
> >> For those with more experience in copyright, any thoughts regarding
> situations like this?
> >>
> >> I realize this isn't a coding question, but figured I might get some
> helpful responses from those of y'all working in archives and various
> digital projects where copyright issues regularly come up.
> >>
> >> ps  I've eliminated the "Century 21 Exposition" logo in my proposed
> reuse, if that matters (on one image, there is a registered trademark
> symbol next to the logo).  I'm also not retaining the original "Seattle
> World's Fair" text.
> >>
> >> -- Michael
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/6007390480/
> >>
> >> [2]
> http://media.photobucket.com/image/seattle%20world%2527s%20fair%20monorail/bananaphone5000/NEWGORILLA/SeattleWFDecal.jpg
> >>
> >> [3] http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf
> >>
> >> # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
> >> # University of Texas at Arlington
> >> # 817-272-5326 office
> >> # 817-688-1926 mobile
> >> # do...@uta.edu
> >> # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cary Gordon
> > The Cherry Hill Company
> > http://chillco.com
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] implemented Microdata and/or Schema.org?

[Trish Rose-Sandler]

Jason

Our Biodiversity Heritage Library project at
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
has implemented some of schema.org into our pages.  Specifically the book,
person, and organization types.  See a sample here

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fbibliography%2F14674&view=

Trish Rose-Sandler
Data Analyst, Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI)
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO
(314) 577-9473 x6396
skype: trish.rose1


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jason Ronallo  wrote:

> Hi,
> Anyone else implemented HTML5 Microdata [1] and/or Schema.org [2]?
>
> I'm looking for examples of libraries, museums, archives, and
> educational organizations that have implemented HTML5 Microdata and/or
> Schema.org in any way. Even if you have just used it in a very limited
> way on a site, I'd be interested in seeing it.
>
> I have a short list right now that I've gleaned from various email
> lists, and I have looked around Sindice and blekko's "grep the web"
> [3] and found a few more. Anyone know of a way (other than doing my
> own map-reduce job on the common crawl data [4]) to search for
> embedded markup like this?
>
> I'd like to see if there are more examples I could draw on for my
> code4lib conference talk.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jason
>
> [1]
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html
> [2] http://schema.org/
> [3] You can vote for a couple of my suggested greps here:
> http://blekko.com/webgrep?page=view&id=bee6ebc66500ba971415d8cf9c0402ba
> and
> http://blekko.com/webgrep?page=view&id=575a6690c56e46a87339b85b797620ce
> [4] http://www.commoncrawl.org/data/accessing-the-data/
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for geotagged book data sources

[Trish Rose-Sandler]

John,

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has geocoded our books and journals based
on LCSH geographic headings (not based on geonames in full text).
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/map

Our data is available via APIs and datasets and while we do store the
lat/long info we acquire from Google Maps api we are not allowed to share
it within our datasets because it would violate Microsoft's Terms of
Service.

Here is a link to a presentation Chris Freeland did recently on our
geocoding
http://www.slideshare.net/chrisfreeland/built-works-registry-geocoding-biodiversity-heritage-library

The end of the presentation links to a 2008 article in code4lib that
explains more of the technical details.

Trish Rose-Sandler,
Data Analyst, Biodiversity Heritage Library

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:13 PM, John Miedema wrote:

> Looking for geotagged book data sources, available as (in order of
> preference): apis, share-able dataset, crawl source. Ideally this data is
> indexed by lat/long, but any geographical groupings are valuable.
>
> Here’s what I have so far.
> http://openbooklab.com/looking-for-geotagged-book-data-sources/
>
> Are you interested in geotagging your book content?
> http://openbooklab.com/how-to-geotag-book-content-in-four-steps/
>
> Thanks, John
>

[CODE4LIB] VRA Core schemas now hosted by Library of Congress

[Trish Rose-Sandler]

The VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual
culture as well as the images that document them. The standard is now being
hosted by the Network Development and MARC Standards
Officeof the Library of Congress
(LC) in partnership with the Visual
Resources Association .VRA Core’s schemas and
documentation are now accessible at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/while user support materials,
such as VRA Core examples, FAQs and
presentations, will continue to be accessible at
http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/

In addition, a new listserv has been created called The Core List (
vrac...@loc.gov).  The Core List is an unmoderated computer forum that
allows users of the VRA Core community to engage in a mutually supportive
environment where questions, ideas, and tools can be shared.  The Core List
is operated by the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC
Standards Office. Users may subscribe to this list by filling out the
subscription form at the VRACORE
Listservsite.

Questions about the VRA Core’s schemas, documentation, and user support
materials should be directed to vracore
@vraweb.org
.  Questions about the LC-hosted Core List should be directed to
nd...@loc.gov.

[CODE4LIB] VRA Core Survey Analysis and Implementation Registry now available

[Trish Rose-Sandler]

The VRA Core Survey Analysis is now
available<http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/>
.   The first VRA Core survey, which was conducted from February 1, 2010 to
March 5, 2010, was administered by the VRA Core Survey Committee as part of
the continuing work of the Visual Resource Association’s (VRA) Data
Standards Committee (DSC). The purpose of the survey was to learn about both
the Core’s current and potential users. Current users were asked which
version of the Core they use, and if that version was Core 4.0 any specific
experiences and challenges in their implementation.  Potential users were
asked to describe barriers in their adoption of Core 4.0.



As part of the feedback received from the survey there is now a VRA
Core Implementation
Registry 
available<http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/vracore_registry.html>
.  The registry provides an opportunity for current and potential users to
view publicly available implementations of the standard.  If you would like
to add your collection to the registry please contact Trish Rose-Sandler (
trosesand...@gmail.com).