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

Thu Nov 22 10:41:23 UTC 2012

Hi Daniel,

I am sitting with someone here who is a musicology archivist from the Archives
de la Ville de Bruxelles who is digitising content for the Internet Archive.

How far are we away from doing something with these kind of images?

http://archive.org/details/leprinceigoropra00pvms

Best,
Sam

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:33 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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