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