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
