SIFT.PICS – 

crowdsourcing for historic photos

@SiftPics, @puik

how content is

searchable

how content is

findable

how to make users discover historic content they are not even looking for?

currently

textual descriptions only

no mention of car...

in Finnish only

distributed work

crowdsourcing

social validation

sift.pics

Results by

November 8, 2015

ultrahack

how to get more people use the app?

467 photos by

Ivan Timiriasew

from

Helsinki City Museum collection

via Finna.fi

 

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storytelling

Unintentional discoveries

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put pictures in dialogue, find connections!

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

* user engagement

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

artificial intelligence

beneficiaries:

memory institutions: museums, archives

Education

senior audience + smart tv

sift.pics:

open source

public domain imagery from museums

submitted for Open Finland Challenge

@SiftPics, @puik

2015-11-08 Sift.pics @Ultrahack

By Vahur Puik

2015-11-08 Sift.pics @Ultrahack

Sift.pics final presentation @Ultrahack

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