[OpenGLAM] Elog.io now up w/ Commons data

[James Morley]

Hi Jonas

Thanks, all now working - not sure if that was the upgrade (I was already on an almost up-to-date Chrome version) or something you fixed your side. I managed to get it working straight away on Firefox.

Really interesting to see it in action on pages like http://imgur.com/a/vnwC2 (a page I bookmarked ages ago for the very reason that it is a perfect example of zero attribution). It's interesting to see what it finds. Am I also correct thinking that you are picking up matches from Flickr too?

I bet this guy on Twitter would find it handy - https://twitter.com/picpedant

Best, James

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From: Maarten Zeinstra [mz at kl.nl]
Sent: 11 December 2014 11:16
To: Jonas Öberg
Cc: James Morley; open-glam at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [OpenGLAM] Elog.io now up w/ Commons data

Hi all,

I had the same problem, updating my browser worked.

Cheers,

Maarten
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> On 11 Dec 2014, at 10:54 , Jonas Öberg <jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> I believe this problem will now have been fixed. Could you try
> installing again from
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/elogio-browser-extension/fggflpkcoiangfbhbekafhpkijbglcmi?
>
> Sincerely,
> Jonas
>
> On 11 December 2014 at 09:58, James Morley <James.Morley at europeana.eu> wrote:
>> Hi Jonas
>>
>> I saw you present this at Wikimania London and it looks interesting.
>>
>> I just tried installing the Chrome extension on my Mac and it repeatedly tells me 'There was a problem adding the item to Chrome. Please refresh the page and try again'. Any ideas what this might be?
>>
>> Thanks, James
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: open-glam [open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org] on behalf of Jonas Öberg [jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org]
>> Sent: 11 December 2014 09:35
>> To: open-glam at lists.okfn.org
>> Subject: [OpenGLAM] Elog.io now up w/ Commons data
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> this may be of interest to some of you who have collections available
>> through Wikimedia Commons (and to everyone else too, for that matter,
>> but in different ways).
>>
>> Yesterday, we released the public beta of Elog.io, a catalog of
>> creative works initially seeded with 22,452,638 images from Wikimedia
>> Commons. Elog.io provides a way to search that collection by a
>> perceptual hash, which matches an image even if it's been moved away
>> from Commons, resized, and had its format changed.
>>
>> You can get more information and download our browser extensions from
>> http://elog.io/
>>
>> Why is this relevant, you ask? Let's say you really like ferrets, and
>> you're reading about ferrets on the Examiner web site:
>> http://www.examiner.com/article/ferret-color-and-pattern-variations
>> And you see the image of a ferret on a bed and think "this looks
>> familiar!" With Elog.io, you can match that image of a ferret on a bed
>> to Wikimedia Commons:
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domestic_ferret.jpg
>>
>> You'll learn where it's from and what license it's under, despite this
>> not being included in the Examiner web site. The same would be true
>> for any collection which is part of the Elog.io catalog. As of right
>> now, we've only included Wikimedia Commons, but we're actively looking
>> to include other collections too.
>>
>> What the browser extensions allow you to do in addition to matching an
>> image you find
>> "in the wild" against Wikimedia Commons is that it provides a quick and
>> handy "Copy as HTML" to copy the image and attribution as a HTML
>> snippet for pasting into Word, LibreOffice, Wordpress, etc.
>>
>> Elog.io is also an open API, which provide lookup functions to find
>> information using a URL (the
>> Commons' page name URL) or using the perceptual hash, which can then
>> be implemented in other applications.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> --
>> Jonas Öberg, Founder & Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
>> Commons Machinery | jonas at commonsmachinery.se
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