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

Thu Nov 22 08:55:20 UTC 2012

Fantastic! Do let Sam or Joris know if you need any help in reaching out to
GLAM institutions. I'm sure they'd be happy to help. :-)

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Daniel Lombraña González <
teleyinex at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is great :D You can actually create an app using the Flickr Person
> Finder as a template and modify only one link to get the images from
> Flickr. The goal could be use the http://www.flickr.com/commonsFlickr
> Commons pools and classify the images, etc. Actually lots of Museums and
> institutions are pushing photos to Flickr Commons<http://www.flickr.com/commons/institutions/>so we only need to contact one of those participant institutions and see if
> they want the app :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Etienne Posthumus <eposthumus at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21 November 2012 17:55, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>
>> All the pieces are there, as Rufus says it could be used right now. As a
>> matter of fact it is being done, albeit for a simpler application.
>>
>> We are busy making a 'tagging game' for the Amsterdam Museum to allow
>> middle school pupils to tag items as part of their school visits to the
>> museum.
>> The source for the images is the Adlib museum management system, which
>> has an API. The first prototype version runs on Django, as the museum were
>> in a bit of a hurry to get something out the door and had specific
>> requirements with regards to logins and writing the data back to the Adlib
>> database. In phase 2 of the project we are adding a link to PyBossa so that
>> one can generate a PyBossa app from the Django application, without needing
>> to do any Python coding.
>>
>> The images are previewed and selected from the Adlib search API,
>> questions are managed by the museum staff in the Django Admin backend, and
>> the PyBossa items are generated as a combination of these two and created
>> using the PyBossa API plus the user secret key.
>>
>> As soon as this part is functional it should appear in the Crowdcrafting
>> site as an app.
>>
>> EP
>>
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