[okfn-labs] PyBossa for cultural heritage transcription/description?

Rufus Pollock rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Wed Nov 21 19:14:22 UTC 2012


On 21 November 2012 16:55, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick note for those of you who are working on PyBossa to ask whether
> it could in principle be used to do things like this?
>
> http://www.whats-the-score.org/

It could be used for something like that right now.

> It is a lovely project, and I'm wondering how far we are from being able to
> - e.g. - have a PyBossa image classification/description project with a
> cultural heritage institution or open content project (like the Internet
> Archive or Wikimedia Foundation).

Maarten was asking about this earlier in July:
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2012-July/000240.html

This would be very straightforward to do technically. The primary challenge is:

a) The need
b) The supply of source images etc

Rufus




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