Comments on: creative commons picture script request?

By: Gouchi

Gouchi — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:12:05 +0000

You may have catch it :
http://www.flickrleech.net

Source : http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/9970

By: cec

cec — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:41:48 +0000

Oh – so I wrote up a chunk of this in javascript a few weeks ago. It works pretty well. Tonight I wrapped that in a GreaseMonkey script: http://www.fenris.org/projects/annotate-flickr/

thoughts or suggestions?

By: Issue Tracking at code.creativecommons.org - Creative Commons

Issue Tracking at code.creativecommons.org - Creative Commons — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:01:42 +0000

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By: Nathan Yergler

Nathan Yergler — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:57:09 +0000

We’re tracking this as a wishlist idea now – http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/issue7.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:58:43 +0000

cec: might want to look at how gfwa does that: http://muellerware.org/projects/getfwa/getfwa.user.js

(Really, I assume that a real javascript whiz could do all this in there, but I am not that person, as my current attempts to hack tinyurl into that are showing.)

By: cec

cec — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:54:03 +0000

thinking about it, the script should probably also grab the license image dynamically. maybe add some options for different license versions, optional output file name, etc. I may take a poke at that tonight

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:21:50 +0000

cec: That is very sweet. Now it just needs to integrate wget to take a flickr URL instead… might well look at that tonight.

By: Luis Villa’s Blog / creative commons picture script request?

Luis Villa’s Blog / creative commons picture script request? — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:39:54 +0000

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By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:15:57 +0000

cec: awesome, i’ll try that out tomorrow.

Mike: I realize that metadata is ideal. (Do Flickr or Picasa set it correctly in images it delivers?) The reality is, of course, that these will go into ppts and thence to pdf, so metadata will be lost, and I’d like to do second-best in the meantime.

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:33:39 +0000

I don’t have it automated at all, but see how I do image attribution and notice in slides for the past year or so in recent decks at http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/slideshows (text at bottom of slide where image is used, including on most covers).

I’m very interested in having active attribution and license links in the reuse context if at all possible, so simply modifying a bitmap doesn’t really help.

In order for automation to work across a zillion different ways an image could be used and programs that could facilitate same, attribution and license metadata has to somehow travel with the image, then programs can use that as appropriate.

The obvious option is to opportunistically embed metadata in the image file (eg CC recommends using XMP because it is flexible and works across many formats). Complementary to this, and I think more interesting, would be for the OS (speaking conceptually, not sure at what level or what mechanism) to remember the source (ie URL) and source context (ie another URL) of all its files, from which metadata can be discovered (and cached, etc.).

You asked for code, I gave you bs. Apologies!