[OpenGLAM] One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research

Wed Jun 25 15:35:43 UTC 2014

Perhaps I just don't understand the point of this, but it seems to me 
that Flickr already has an image search capability at least as good (if 
not better than) Google's... and I suspect Google has done something to 
limit the incidence of Flickr returns in its own search method.

My privacy hackles are raised by:

"the task is to build a system capable of accurately predicting where in 
the world the photos and videos were taken without using the longitude 
and latitude coordinates."

Guess its time to only limit cc images purged of metadata or maybe to 
stop posting cc images to flickr at all.

Personally I think it would be much more useful and cost Flickr much 
less to add the capability for users to post CC0 and public domain 
marked images.

Regards,
Laurel L. Russwurm

On 06/25/2014 05:04 AM, Ben O'Steen wrote:
> An excellent initiative from its description :) It will be interesting 
> to see how this actually pans out.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 25 June 2014 09:35, Johan Oomen <joomen at beeldengeluid.nl 
> <mailto:joomen at beeldengeluid.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Good morning (for those in Europe;-),
>
>     I just came across this announcement from Yahoo Labs: "One Hundred
>     Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research".
>
>     More information here:
>     http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-million-creative-commons-flickr-images-for
>
>     Best wishes,
>     Johan
>     @johanoomen
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