[Taxacom] Fwd: Any suggestions of open source monitoring software/web sites that stores and makes available location images?

[Peter Rauch]

Tony, You're talking to at least one other person --me. So thanks.

Mary opened up Pandora's Box --and justifiably so even if that perhaps
wasn't her intent.

Tony is describing the evil stuff that's contained therein --in particular,
the Evil Information God.........

Mary, are you sure you want to "... standardized images of a location and
saving them to a web site,
with appropriate metadata, so that they could be used to track changes over
time at that location"?

;>)

Peter

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Maybe I am talking to myself here, but...
>
> It may help if you think of the proposed images for storage as you would
> any type of [scientific/non-scientific] data. To my mind this then
> articulates a few important principles:
>
> 1. Long term preservation. Wherever you place the images, you want to be as
> certain as possible they will still be in existence (possibly with
> migration of course) in *n* years time where n = any number you like (5?
> 10? 50? 100?)
>
> 2. Discoverability and access. If an item is preserved/stored, it should be
> guaranteed to find it knowing relevant search criteria. Internal indexing /
> keywords / taxonomic terms / geographic search methods can all help here;
> also good user prompts e.g. "more from this taxon" (or locality or uploader
> etc. etc.), broader/narrower search, and so on (this is easy to envisage in
> either a taxonomic- or geographic- based system, less so for some others).
>
> 3. Value adding by the system: for example good internal data organisation
> / categorization, onward sharing to other relevant initiatives, exposure to
> Google text and image searching, more...
>
> 4. Scale / uptake / user base. You want to put the images where someone is
> likely to look, both now and in the future. Also scale often equates to the
> number of people who will care about maintaining the system into the longer
> term.
>
> 5. Cost (to the project) and barriers to entry. If you use one of the
> systems mentioned to date, there should be no cost to the project. Barriers
> to entry would include things like the ease or difficulty of setting up
> user accounts, complexity of the image upload process and required
> keywording etc., and whether there are constraints on use of the images
> once uploaded (for example you would not want to assign exclusive use to
> others). In general I believe most of the systems discussed cater for CC0
> or unrestricted-use images, or CC-BY which means unrestricted sharing but
> with attribution required (probably the current best practice in my
> opinion; if users want to maintain e.g. commercial release rights over high
> resolution versions they simply upload just low resolution versions to the
> public repository).
>
> 6. Special needs. For example if catering for (and displaying) time series
> at a location is a "must have", that may narrow your set of options
> considerably. On the other hand it sounds like your set of needs is fairly
> open ended so maybe looking for a very specialized system would be
> counter-productive at this point.
>
> The above is really just stepping back from the specific sytems mentioned
> to date and looking for some common threads or over-arching considerations.
> If I have missed any, please chime in!. I trust this is helpful,
>
> Regards - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
>
>
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> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > -----Original Message-----
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > > From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On
> >>>> > > > Behalf Of Mary Barkworth
> >>>> > > > Sent: 28 November 2017 21:00
> >>>> > > > To: (Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu)
> >>>> > > > Subject: [Taxacom] Any suggestions of open source monitoring
> >>>> > > > software/web sites that stores and makes available location
> >>>> images?
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > > I am interested in encouraging people to record standardized
> >>>> > > > images of a location and saving them to a web site, with
> >>>> > > > appropriate metadata, so
> >>>> > > that
> >>>> > > > they could be used to track changes over time at that
> location.  I
> >>>> > > > know this sort of work is done, but I would appreciate being
> told
> >>>> > > > of a
> >>>> > > program,
> >>>> > > > web site and or organization that brings such resources together
> >>>> > > > the way collection networks bring specimen data together.
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > > Mary
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> >
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