Visual Search

Web Search Academy Internet Librarian International 26th October 2011 Visual search Karen Blakeman http://www.rba.co.uk/ Twitter: @karenblakeman [email_address] 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk

Copyright
Always, always check and double check the copyright - images may have a digital watermark and be tracked e.g. Digimarc
Creative Commons does not mean you can do what you like with an image
six licences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
“ Open-licencing your images. What it means and how to do it.” Andy Mabbett aka pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licencing-images-what-how/
Karen Blakeman's Blog “Free-to-use images might not be”
http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2009/07/16/free-to-use-images-might-not-be/
Always credit the photographer – you cite references why not the ‘author’ of a photograph?
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Copyright
giving credit… | pia jane bijkerk :
http://blog.piajanebijkerk.com/WordPress/2011/03/18/giving-credit/

Checking EXIF, watermarks and copyright
Jeffrey's Exif viewer http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Digimarc Reader for Images – http://www.digimarc.com/
Safest approach - ask the owner of the page or web site
“ I found it on the web so there’s no copyright” is the wrong answer!
Using an image in a paper, presentation or commercially? Make sure you document location of the image you use, and keep copies of any copyright correspondence
Similar image options and web sites such as Tineye.com can help locate alternatives and origins of an image

Developments in image search
Colour selection
single colours, multiple colours,
“ Similar” images
Facial recognition
identification of head and shoulders photos, face detection
full facial recognition
“ Key Russian social network adds facial recognition to photos” http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/key-russian-social-network-adds-facial-recognition-to-photos/
“ Google Not Planning To Release Mobile Face Recognition : Update” http://searchengineland.com/with-mobile-face-recognition-google-crosses-the-creepy-line-70978

Google images
Make use of search options in the side bar or on the advanced search screen

Google Images 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk “ More sizes” “ Similar images”

Google Images – use an existing image 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk Click on the camera icon in the search box and then either enter the URL of an image or upload it. On the results page you can add keywords to refine the search

Google Images – Sites with images 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk Useful if you want to describe the image in detail, for example moth UK black cream spots

Google images - creative commons, public domain
Google advanced image search - use the usage rights, but always double check the licence on the web site
Public domain
carry out your search in the image search bar and when the results appear on screen add &as_rights=cc_publicdomain to the end of the string in the URL/address bar of your browser
but public domain may refer to another photo – cheque the web site hosting the photo

picasaweb.google.com 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk

Panoramio
http://www.panoramio.com/
Layer on Google Earth and maps (now owned by Google)
Various licences assigned by the photographers

Bing 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk

Bing 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk Options in the left hand sidebar similar to Google “ More sizes” but no “similar” option

Bing – Visual Search 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk Not available in all country versions – content varies

Bing – Visual Search 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk Check accuracy of associated information - may be out of date

Flickr
Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons or advanced search screen http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
Use Advanced Search for date options

Compfight – http://www.compfight.com/
Search interface for Flickr
Can select Creative Commons or photos that can be used commercially

Images - other sources for Creative Commons and public domain images
Idee Inc Multicolr Search Lab http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/
check the licence information towards the bottom of the page e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Beach_by_Thomas_Beach.jpg
MorgueFile.com http://www.morguefile.com/ - public domain
Geograph http://www.geograph.org.uk/ Creative Commons 2.0
Most of the images on US government web sites are public domain (but do check)
NASA http://www.nasa.gov/ - public domain
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Multicolr Search Lab http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
Search for up to 5 colours – can adjust proportions of colour
No key word searching of content
Flickr creative commons images – clicking on an image takes you to its Flickr page

Geograph.org.uk
UK and Ireland photos of landmarks and buildings for every Ordnance Survey grid
Creative Commons 2.0

Video
YouTube, Vimeo.com, DailyMotion.com
iTunes, iTunes U
Blinkx - http://www.blinkx.com/
good for catching up with news
Zuula - http://www.zuula.com/
click on the video tab
Browsys Finder http://www.browsys.com/finder/
click on the video tab
BBC Motion Gallery - BBC Archive
http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/home/archives.do
NewsFilm Online
http://www.nfo.ac.uk/

Google Videos
NOT the same as YouTube

Bing Videos 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk

Mashups and visualizations
Visualizations of data becoming common
availability of Open Data and visualization tools
Data journalism and data visualization | News | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
Flickr: Guardian Datastore
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1115946@N24/
Need to know
source(s) of data
coverage and scope
can one access the raw data?
what has been down to create the visualization - filters used, subsets, exclusions etc

http://www.flickr.com/groups/guardiandatastore/pool/ 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk Check the descriptions with the Flickr image for information (if any) on data sources used

Mashups e.g. Roadworks Info
http://elgin.gov.uk/
Obvious gaps in coverage - also mentioned in service coverage

Visualisation of results and content
Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/
look at the network on right hand side of the screen
Move slider bar to change emphasis – people, companies
Microsoft Academic
graphs, mindmaps, network maps
never mind the poor quality of the data and poor coverage just admire the pretty pictures!
Quintura.com http://www.quintura.com/
Cluuz http://www.cluuz.com/
powered by Yahoo!

Quintura 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk

Cluuz 26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk

26/10/11 www.rba.co.uk When are road works not road works? When they are classified as Network Rail bridge works! http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbainfo/5911913498/ CC 3.0 Attribution Non-commercial

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