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

lessons learned

accessing content is a technical and easy issue

Unintentional discoveries

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.

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* 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

2nd prize @hack4.fi 2015

PRIZE @Ultrahack 2015

open finland challenge finalist

@SiftPics, @puik

2016-04-13 Sift.pics @Hack4.fi 2016

By Vahur Puik

2016-04-13 Sift.pics @Hack4.fi 2016

Sift.pics presentation

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