EOL Flickr Tutorial

TutorialLearn how to contribute an image or video to the Encyclopedia of Life using Flickr October 2012 http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life

Overview• Join Flickr• Join the EOL Group• Upload your photo or video (make sure it is public)• Add at least one machine tag• Change the license on your image or video• Add the image or video to the EOL group pool• Previous three steps may be done in any order• Images and videos will be automatically gathered up by EOL and displayed as “unreviewed content” Return to Overview

Join Flickr• Basic Flickr accounts are free• To join, click on the Sign up now button• If you already have a Yahoo, Google or Facebook ID you can use it to register at Flickr Return to Overview

Join the EOL GroupGo to the EOL Images group homepage http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_lifeClick Join This Group and become a member. You will need to accept the basic rulesof the group in order to join. Scroll down the group homepage to learn more aboutthe group before you begin. Return to Overview

Upload your photo or videoClick on the Upload option on the upper right hand side of your screen Return to Overview

Click on Old Uploadr

Click Choose photos and videos and a dialoguebox will open: Return to Overview

The dialogue box allows you to select the fileyou want to upload. Larger file sizes are best. Return to Overview

Now your selected photo(s) or videos should appear on theupload list. Make sure the privacy is set to “Public” and thenclick the pink button that says Upload Photos and Videos. Return to Overview

Titles, Descriptions and TagsOnce Flickr finishes uploading the photo or video, a green checkmarkwill appear, click on it to add a title, description and tag to your photo.

In this screen you can add a title and a description that will show up on EOL. You will also need to add a “machine tag” which will help place the image or video on the correct EOL page(s).Enter a machine tag and clickon the blue ADD button.(more info about tagging on next slide)Add a title, either a scientific orcommon name Add a description When you are done, you will click on the blue Save button.

Tagging Your Image or Video on Flickr• A tag provides information about what is pictured in the image or video.• You will need to add a special kind of tag called a “machine tag” to your image or video. This tag will help a machine (a computer program) place this image or video onto the correct EOL species page.Click on the links below to learn about each tagging option:Flickr Taxonomic Tagging Tool (easiest)Manual Machine Tagging Return to Overview

Taxonomic Tags for Flickr ToolYou can use the iNaturalist.org Taxonomic Tags for Flickr tool to search for tags for yourspecies image or video.•Go to: http://inaturalist.org/taxa/flickr_tagger•Enter in the common or scientific name of the species (at any taxonomic level) and clickLookup. iNaturalist will automatically look species that match your key words.•Click Make Tags to see possible taxonomic names for you to choose from, which youcan copy and paste into the tag box in Flickr Return to Overview

• Click on the Make tags button to generate your tag or tags• Copy and paste the tag into the tag field on Flickr*Remember when you enter in a species name with a space such as Limulus polyphemus, you need to use quotation marks when you enter the tag into Flickr:(ex. “taxonomy:binomial=Limulus polyphemus” ) Return to Overview

Automatic Image TaggingYou can also link your Flickr Photostream to iNaturalist to automatically tag yourimages.•Create a free iNaturalist Account and follow prompts to “link” your account to Flickr•Search for and make tags•Choose photos from your photostream to be automatically tagged and click Tag thesephotos Return to Overview

You can manually enter one or more of the following machine tags: You only need ONE of these tags for your image to be included in EOL. Binomial is best, but you can be less specific if necessary. The names (except for common names) should be the Latin, scientific names for the organisms. •taxonomy:kingdom=* for example “taxonomy:binomial=Vanessa atalanta” •taxonomy:phylum=* taxonomy:order=Lepidoptera •taxonomy:class= * •taxonomy:order=* •taxonomy:family=* •taxonomy:genus=* •taxonomy:species=* •taxonomy:binomial=* [e.g. genus and species with a space between them, enclose in quotes when you type] •taxonomy:trinomial=* [e.g. genus, species, and subspecies with spaces between them, enclose in quotes when you type] •taxonomy:common=* [the common, or vernacular, name, probably need quotes if the common name involves two words] •*replace with the name --- There should not be an actual asterisk in your tagIf you need help identifying the organism in your photo, see the ID Help thread in our FlickrEOL Images group discussion. Return to Overview

Choose a Creative Commons the License for your photoFor images to be shared through EOL they need to have a Creative Commons License. • Attribution • Attribution, Non-Commercial • Attribution, Non-Commercial-Share Alike • Attribution, Share Alike Briefly... Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit. Non-commercial means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for non-commercial purposes only. Share Alike means: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. Return to Overview

How to change a licenseUnder the Owners settings section, click on Edit next to AllRights Reserved.

A popup box will ask you to select a Creative Commons license for yourphoto. Any of the licenses marked with a red circle below are accepted byEOL. Choose a license and click on the blue Save button.

Setting a Default LicenseIf you are going to be submitting a lot of photos to EOL, you will want to change your default license soyou don’t have to set the license one at a time. You can do this by clicking on Organize and CreateDrag the images you want to editinto the main gray area.Click on Permissions, where youcan select a default license for thebatch of images you have selected.You can also add tags and sendyour images to a group in theBatch Organize section. Return to Overview

Add Your Image to the EOL Group PoolNow that your photo or video is public, has an acceptable copyright license, andcontains a machine tag…click the Actions and choose Add to a group Return to Overview

If you’ve successfully added your image or video to theEncyclopedia of Life Group pool, you should now see it on thefront page of the EOL group homepage. Images and videos areharvested and imported to EOL every few days Return to Overview

Your image/video on EOLAn image or video submitted to the EOL Flickr Group and correctly tagged willappear on EOL with a gray unreviewed maker, indicating the image has not yet beenreviewed. When the image is reviewed by a curator a green trusted marker mayappear Return to Overview

You will receive credit for your image or video andthere will be a direct link back to your original file onFlickr. Return to Overview

Comments and actions by EOL Curators on your image or video will be posted back to the Flickr page

Resources• If you had trouble, please post a comment on the discussion board or read through the group’s threads to see if anyone may have already asked the same question• You can also upload multiple images and videos using downloadable Flickr tools - http://www.flickr.com/tools/Created by: Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org)Updated 10.2.2012 Return to Overview

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