[cc-community] Ookaboo now has nearly a million images and allows user selection of images
Paul Houle
paul at ontology2.com
Thu Aug 11 21:33:02 EDT 2011
It's been a long time since I've written anything to publicize
my site
http://ookaboo.com/
but a lot of changes have been going on. Perhaps the biggest one
is that the site's gotten much bigger -- it now has nearly 950,000
creative commons images of 500,000 precisely defined topics.
We've recently launched a feature that lets users select images
they find on Flickr and attach them to precise topics. This is a bit
like 'tagging', but it's more accurate because the topics come from
Freebase and DBpedia. We've imported a lot of pictures that were used
on Wikipedia, and we're trying to herd users towards finding pictures
of topics that are poorly represented now but are well represented on
Flickr. For instance, our old process didn't get a lot of pictures of
food, but lots of people take creative commons pictures of food on
Flickr. Where Wikimedia Commons is full of old government photos of
WWII Aircraft, people will upload pictures taken at airshows to
Flickr, so this represents a different point of view.
Anyway, this is turning out not to just be a technological
problem but also a problem of community building, and I know it needs a
lot of work from a UI perspective and in terms of getting people
motivated. If you're interested at all, I'd suggest you subscribe to
our RSS feed of recent photos (so you can see how things are going) and
that you sign up for our Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/ookaboo
Any thoughts?
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