On 23/01/2008, daniwo59(a)aol.com <daniwo59(a)aol.com> wrote:
[Getty Images]
Looking at their site, I found that they pride
themselves on four advantages
that make all the difference between a media dump and a media collection. It
is worth considering how our own image bank meets these standards, which, as
they say, have emerged as industry standards over the past several years.
http://gettyimages.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=company_overview
How can we improve our own platform to simplify the
process for people
wishing to use free images?
Our search is rubbish. That's the big need.
The other part of the problem is how to use images in compliance with
the licence. To this end, I started
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuse a while ago, with the intended
audience being casual readers who know nothing about Wikimedia but who
call up or email asking if they can reuse an image they saw on
Wikipedia. Any improvements anyone can make for accuracy and *CLARITY*
are most welcomed.
How can we expedite any number of processes so that
people get what they
want, and quickly?
RSS of categories or tags? This means making categories or tags much
easier. I try to remember to categorise my Commons uploads, but it's
more work than it should be just to find the right category.
Do we have the kinds of images that people really want
to use/reuse? How is
that determined?
At the moment our remit is stuff that is used on a project or
reasonably would be used on a project. Is that good enough? How would
we reasonably expand on that?
(cc'd to commons-l - this thread belongs there too)
- d.