Comments on: Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 3: Almost done

By: shelley

shelley — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:22:43 +0000

Hi Travis,

The MET is going to attempt to program a solution based on our machine tags, which should generate some captions, then once that is done, they will be posting instructions via the Flickr group for the others. Stay tuned.

By: Travis Seifman

Travis Seifman — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:19:03 +0000

Shelley,

Thank you again for all your hard work.

I had not realized that the Met was only captioning on-demand. That explains why nothing’s been captioned yet from them.

How can I (as a Wiki editor) request captioning from the Metropolitan so that a given image can be used on Wikipedia?

Thank you very much.

-Travis
Flickr user toranosuke
Wikipedia editor LordAmeth

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By: Richard McCoy

Richard McCoy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:09 +0000

I guess what I meant with “how to keep going” is not necessarily with this project in particular, but as CJ points out how to think about the next experiment.

I’ve been thinking about ways that Wikipedia can be used to amplify the information contained within museums around artworks.

In the end, though, I’m not convinced that everyone actually thinks that’s a good idea. But, in the end, Wikipedia is a place that exists right now where we could share all sorts of information about art.

Could the final goal be a collaborative world wide catalog raisonee of all art?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_raisonn%C3%A9

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:41:17 +0000

It is a great accomplishment; there is no need to repeat it & to do so would make it mundane. Your karma should be well primed for your next lovely experiment – & we’ll all be waiting to jump on board :)

By: Richard McCoy

Richard McCoy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:47:09 +0000

Interesting to read all of this. I’m wondering if tomorrow’s post will have a “what’s next” section, with ideas about how to keep going.

By: Francesca Ford

Francesca Ford — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:20:07 +0000

Oh my I had to have a good lie down after reading these last 3 posts, what an exhausting project on so many levels. I salute the BM team for being brave enough to take on WLA in the first place, for giving other institutions the chance to be involved and pulling out all the stops to see it through.

Your insights into working across communities are really important ones. The bottom line seems to be that it’s important to go on a few dates before getting engaged.

And finally 3 cheers for Shelley and Erin!!!

By: Hui

Hui — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:33:26 +0000

Wow, that’s a lot of works to tag and caption the pictures. I think the problem was users are free to name or tag the pictures.

If they can follow the rule of giving the title/tag based on the accession number, the by using Flickr API, it is possible to integrate the process automatically.

But it is a great effort and marvelous result!