Dear All, <br><br>[cross post to commons-l and wikimediaaustralia-l]<br><br>Picture
Australia is interested in adding Commons photos to their service but
has several technical issues they would like to resolve first. Can we
help?<br>
<br>Picture Australia is an archive aggregation service run by the
National Library of Australia and aggregates searches across many
Australian institutions (such as the various state libraries,
universities, government departments) and also Flickr. You can see the
project at <a href="http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html</a> and you can see their other contributors at <a href="http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/participants/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/participants/index.html</a><br>

<br>This is a quote from the email written to me from PA:<br><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">At the moment our main source of contemporary images is 
Flickr and we are interested in investigating other sources of contemporary 
images.&nbsp; There are a few issues with the Wikimedia Commons that we 
foresee:</font></span><br clear="all"><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">1- the metadata quality is highly variable.&nbsp; With 
Flickr contributors are able to provide a fair bit of additional metadata about 
their images.&nbsp; Before&nbsp; pulling images in from Wikipedia we&#39;d need the 
data to adhere to some basic standards.&nbsp; (see <a href="http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/metadata.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/metadata.html</a>).</font></span></div>


<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">2- there are certainly a number of images that have been 
sourced from Picture Australia or our contributors.&nbsp; Pulling these in would 
create an issue with duplicate images and would likely confuse users if they 
were attempting to buy a copy.</font></span></div>
<span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">3- Wikipedia doesn&#39;t have an OAI interface so we would need 
to look at how to ingest the data.<br></font></span><br>I
would add a 4th concern, and I&#39;m not sure if this is a big problem or
easily fixed, is that most of the pictures on Commons are not relevant
to PA. Would we be able to provide a feed of only the relevant
categories?<br>
<br>All the best, <br>- Liam Wyatt<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Email - <a href="mailto:liamwyatt@gmail.com">liamwyatt@gmail.com</a><br>Phone - +61 (0)434 056 914<br>Skype - Wittylama<br>Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]