Hi Lodewijk,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org> wrote:

I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this? 

I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas? 

Here is what we did in WLM-IR in 2016:

For the top 10 photos, we did the following:
* manually checked the licenses
* did a quick eyeballing on the meta data in Commons to see possible issues that can be immediately spotted.
* used https://ctrlq.org/google/images/ to look for similar photos available on the internet.

The above is not a good approach, it's too manual for things that (at least partly) machines can do better than humans, but in the absence of other technical solutions it was better than not doing any check in our case.

Moving forward, this kind of checks should become more embedded as parts of the systems WLM interacts with, as much as possible. For example, it may be possible and desirable to have Montage surface relevant information that would allow the coordinators or jurors flag possible issues. And/or, this can be handled on Commons end. 

One thing that I want to encourage is that if there is interest to work on addressing this problem, we don't do this as a one off service/tool that solves this one specific problem without taking into account the rest of the WLM ecosystem. Instead, we can spec out how the possible tool/service will interact with other tools or services that already are or becoming part of WLM infrastructure.

And of course, if anyone is reading this email and you're interested to work on it, please ping WLM international team. We are eager to hear from you.

Best,
Lily
 
Best,
Lodewijk

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