SIFT.PICS – 

sorting historic photographs into categories

Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015

Estonian Literary Museum, October 19

fotoparand.org.ee

how content is...

how photographs are...

presented

how content is

searchable

how content is

findable

currently

caption only mentions one person!

textual descriptions only

"Suurturg" ("Big market" is not used any more

no mention of "Raekoja plats" ("Townhall square"), just "tänaval" ("on the street")

how to geotag content?

distributed work

crowdsourcing!

+ social validation

Connection to the Estonian central museums database muis.ee

Beginning of crowdsourced curation of content

rephotography

sift.pics

Android application

Results by

October 19, 2015

person hard to notice on small screen device (smartphone)

exploratory

interaction with content

Unintentional discoveries

* user engagement
* collections communication, popularization, dissemination...
* metadata enrichment

* user engagement

* user engagement
* collections communication, popularization, dissemination...
 

competition

gamification

artificial intelligence

Vahur Puik

vahur@ajapaik.ee

All pictures used are on Ajapaik or Sift.pics (pictures in presentation link to source)

https://slides.com/puik/2015-10-19

2015-10-19 Sift.pics (& Ajapaik) presentation

By Vahur Puik

2015-10-19 Sift.pics (& Ajapaik) presentation

Presentation at "Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015. Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities" October 19-21, Estonian Literary Museum http://www.folklore.ee/dh/en/events/dh_conference_estonia_2015/

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