On 12/15/2013 12:48 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:
2013/12/15 Katie Chan ktc@ktchan.info:
"We plan to launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe what the images portray."
The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million uncategorised images == Commons community raise up in arms
It does not really make a difference whether you release a million images without metadata to Flickr, or to Commons. It comes without any metadata, so it cannot be searched (and images cannot be found) in either case. :(
As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content.
I agree with Andy (see http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/#commen...) that tools for easier curation will be quite helpful.
Matt Flaschen