[OpenGLAM] irony of CC-BY without PIs

[Adam Green]

Hi Catherine,

Editor of The Public Domain Review here. Just to say that I had same
problem with their ridiculous URL-less system but I got round it by finding
their format (they linked to specific images in their press announcement,
so I just copied that). I use it here in the links for each pic in this
post:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/20/selection-from-wellcome-librarys-release-of-100k-openly-licensed-images/-
with that unique identifyier you see after indexplus/image/ in the URL
being given by them in the pic description. They do have a unique
identifier but just don't give you an easy way to use it to make a link
back to the specific picture!

All the best,

Adam.




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On 27 January 2014 01:07, Catherine Styles <cath.styles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chiming in to the attribution debate about Wellcome Images...
>
> I've just selected a great set of 95 images to ingest into a game of
> resemblance <http://sembl.net> I'm building. I'm quite *happy to
> attribute* Wellcome as the source; in fact I'm keen to publish a link
> back to each item, *so that players can discover* as much of *the context
> for each image* as possible.
>
> Trouble is, Wellcome images don't seem to have any kind of unique
> identifier as far as finding them on the web goes. The system seems to
> generate URLs based on the lightbox I've created to (temporarily) store
> them. Most collections will fall short of the exemplary Rijksmuseum, State
> Library of Victoria, Trove etc, with their short, guaranteed-persistent
> identifiers, but really, I'd be happy with a reasonably predictable and
> persistent-looking URL for each thing.
>
> I've sent a query about it to Wellcome Images, so hopefully there is a
> non-obvious way to do this kind of enhanced (but really, basic!) online
> attribution.
>
> My point here and now is simply that if you want attribution, you should
> make it easy – not just to say that this item comes from your collection,
> but to direct people to its home within your collection database.
> Cath
>
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> @semblnet
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