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

Fri Nov 23 07:25:16 UTC 2012

Hi there,

For image classification and transcription PyBossa only needs the following:

1.-  A list of image files that can be accessed via http, for example in
Flickr or in a personal http folder
2.- Modify a Flickr Person Finder to fit their needs (what do they want to
transcribe? are they looking for specific elements in the pictures?)
3.- Create the tasks in crowdcrafting.org
4.- Start collecting the data :-)

Our colleagues of Brazil have more or less a full workflow for transcribing
big scanned books. Actually they are collaborating with people from the
Internet Archive. We may contact them again I think :-)

Cheers,

Daniel

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el
intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV
o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un
fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él.
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