[Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution

[Patrick Lockley]

My wikipedia "api" isn't always finding stuff...

It's very reliable if you search for "tree"

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Prior
Sent: 13 September 2010 16:13
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution


  I'm only getting Flickr URLs in my results. For example if I search 
for 'technology' I get 17 pages with 300 pictures all Flickr sourced.

JP

On 13/09/2010 16:03, Patrick Lockley wrote:
> Think so
>
> Might be a url encoding thing.
>
> I could see if it's the function of the data
>
> Do they tend to be flickr urls rather than Wikipedia ones?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
Prior
> Sent: 13 September 2010 15:59
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> Subject: Re: [Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution
>
>
>    Maybe a Mac thing - can't get it to work on Chrome for Mac either.
>
> Does Ron Mitchell have access to a Mac? Would be interesting to see if
> he gets the same issues.
>
> cheers
>
> JP
>
> On 13/09/2010 15:35, Patrick Lockley wrote:
>> Tested here on the same image and it works.
>>
>> A little confused as to what's happened?
>>
>> Could some safari types please try it out for me please. I can't use
a
>> mac for too long as I don't drink coffee and it starts to hiss at me.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
> Prior
>> Sent: 13 September 2010 15:19
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>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution
>>
>>
>>     Use a Mac and Windows box at work so tested several images on
both
>> using FF and Safari. Works fine on FF for Windows, on Safari Win and
>> FF/Safari Mac I get the missing author attribution.
>>
>> I'll send you a screenshot off list.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> JP
>>
>> On 13/09/2010 15:10, Patrick Lockley wrote:
>>> Ah crap :(
>>>
>>> Thanks for promoting it though.
>>>
>>> It shouldn't be browser specific as it's done server side.
>>>
>>> Was it for a particular link / image?
>>>
>>> Could you send it to me off list so I can see if I can fix it.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
>> Prior
>>> Sent: 13 September 2010 15:09
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>>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution
>>>
>>>
>>>      A fantastic tool - thanks and congratulations to those
involved.
>> I'll
>>> have a blog post up discussing the tool later
>>> (http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/elat).
>>>
>>> Just a heads-up on a bug - on a Mac (OS 10.6) whether using Safari
or
>>> Firefox the author attribution doesn't embed in the image, only the
> CC
>>> icon/image.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> JP
>>>
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