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

Fri Jan 23 03:17:07 UTC 2015

Jonas -

I not only support this effort wholeheartedly, but I applaud open access
efforts using thunderclap.it wholeheartedly as well!

Count me in. Hopefully a few more:
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/21512-clapping-for-photographers#

- Heath

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Jonas Öberg <
jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> just as a quick followup to this, since it's about a month since we
> launched. We have a rather steady stream of requests coming in to
> Elog.io. Right now it's at around one-two accesses per second with
> requests for information about a photograph found online. Since launch
> we've served about 550k requests.
>
> But we're still at 22M photographs in the catalog. That will change
> now though; we have information coming into the catalog from Safe
> Creative, and we're testing imports from Flickr, thanks to the awesome
> people from Flickr's research & commons teams.
>
> Come Saturday next week, we'll launch a campaign to raise more
> awareness of Elog.io and get us going through to summer, to our next
> milestone. We would really appreciate your help in this! I'll be
> sending an announcement to this list later on, but something you can
> do immediately is to Thunderclap us:
>
>    https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/21512-clapping-for-photographers#
>
> Thunderclap is a service that, when you sign in with your Facebook,
> Twitter or Tumblr account, can post our campaign announcements on your
> behalf, automatically next week, so you don't need to think about it
> until then :)
>
> Thanks for your support!
>
> Sincerely,
> Jonas
>
>
> On 11 December 2014 at 09:35, Jonas Öberg
> <jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 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
> > E-mail is the fastest way to my attention
>
>
>
> --
> Jonas Öberg, Founder & Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
> Commons Machinery | jonas at commonsmachinery.se
> E-mail is the fastest way to my attention
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