Here's an interesting project from the British Library - interesting both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the value and impact of content donations
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/03/tracking-pub... https://ictomorrow.innovateuk.org/web/digital-innovation-contest-data/britis...
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The British Library has a large and growing collection of material in the public domain, available through online platforms, such as Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary) and Wikimedia Commons, for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. However, once released online, the British Library has little way of following that content as it is re-used, which makes it difficult to measure any creative and economic benefit.
The successful solution will allow public institutions to better quantify and optimise the economic impact of releasing content into the public domain (...)
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Andrew Gray, 27/03/2014 20:31:
Here's an interesting project from the British Library - interesting both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the value and impact of content donations
Interestingly, from http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/restoring-cc-attribution-to-flickr-because-yahoo... mentioned in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/7217 :
«A few months back, I picked Flickr as one of the sites to use to distribute a large (1 million from the British Library) collection of public domain illustrations I had extracted. The choice was easy to promote due to the presence of Flickr Commons and Flickr's API. I am disappointed with the loss of certain services (notes) and how crucial services are now hidden by UI and require multiple steps to use (community tagging, download original image, etc). I have seen a sharp drop-off of casual tagging and only the diehard community remains.»
Nemo
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/03/tracking-pub... https://ictomorrow.innovateuk.org/web/digital-innovation-contest-data/britis...
The British Library has a large and growing collection of material in the public domain, available through online platforms, such as Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary) and Wikimedia Commons, for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. However, once released online, the British Library has little way of following that content as it is re-used, which makes it difficult to measure any creative and economic benefit.
The successful solution will allow public institutions to better quantify and optimise the economic impact of releasing content into the public domain (...)
2014-03-27 20:31 GMT+01:00 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
Here's an interesting project from the British Library - interesting both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the value and impact of content donations
Reminds me of these papers, in case you have not seem them already:
Isabella Kirton, et Melissa Terras. « Digitization and Dissemination: A Reverse Image Lookup Study to Assess the Reuse of Images of Paintings from the National Gallery’s Website ». *Journal of Digital Humanities*, 27 janvier 2014. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-1/reverse-image-lookup-paintings-dig... . ———. « Where Do Images of Art Go Once They Go Online? A Reverse Image Lookup Study to Assess the Dissemination of Digitized Cultural Heritage | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013 », 2013. http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/where-do-images-of-art-go-once-they... .
Jean-Frédéric, 05/06/2014 14:38:
Reminds me of these papers, in case you have not seem them already:
Interesting, downloaded; but why don't you add reviews of them to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-25/Recent_research? :)
Nemo