Mozilla Firefox browser search function includes Creative Commons
Search for images, web pages, video, music, media
Search using options: commercial purposes and/or modify, adapt and build upon
Search using tags which are keywords describing the object
Flickr
Essentially a social network site - one of the world’s best online photo management and sharing apps
Help people make their content available to people who matter to them - this includes alternative licensing options to allow re-use, download & remix
Enable new ways of organising video and photo
Free account to upload photographs and use the site to store, share and explore photos (up to 100 MB per month)
Members can
Upload and download photos
join and create groups
participate in discussions
connect to people and can help widen your org’s online connections through photo-sharing
Do you know what this is?
Search on Flickr
Tags
An online ‘filing’ system to categorise photos and video
a keyword or category label.
Tags help you find photos and videos which have something in common .
On Flickr - up to 75 tags to each photo or video
Geo-tagging using the map on Flickr
Creative Commons on Flickr
Search on Flickr
Attribution should always include:
Source , eg: Flickr, Title of picture , Name of creator/ licensor , Licence conditions , eg: This image is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Depending on your editorial policy, for example, our org chooses to display licence conditions when hovering with cursor over image
Search on Flickr Click here!
Search on Flickr Click to search in the licence sub category
Visualising with Video
A great way to find resources on issues related to your work.
Videos can effectively explain complex issues in a succinct and entertaining way.
Think about creating video for documentation, spreading a story (video meme) amongst a community; adding momentum to your effort
Youtube channels Huge international audiences, limit of 20 minute uploads, 10 million uploads a day.
Zoopy
Local option, local audiences, local speeds (faster). Audio, video and photos. Mobile site.
Dotsub
Plugging in to a community of translators
Embedding video - a legal loophole? Embedding versus downloading … Embed uses code which links to where the object is hosted Downloading takes ‘copy’ of object from its server to your server; you store a copy of the object How to … a) EMBED (video) Copy the embed code Choose HTML view Paste the embed code Resize b) DOWNLOAD/UPLOAD (photo) Click download and save to desktop.
Public Domain Resources FLICKR Commons http://www.flickr.com/commons/ Cataloguing and tagging public works Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language Internet Archive http://www.archive.org
Public Domain Resources
Public Domain Resources
Open Access Resources
Now it’s your turn …
Find and download to desktop an image of a flower that has an attribution non-commercial licence
Find a Creative Commons licensed article about environmental issues
Find an image of the Red Sea manuscripts that is licensed under Creative Commons and read / record the licence conditions. What licence is it and what does it mean?
Can you find a Creative Commons-licensed image on Zoopy?
Could you find info/ image of ‘libraries’ on the Internet Archive?
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