[Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution

Mon Sep 6 12:58:14 BST 2010

would be more useful with browse facilities IMO
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How would you like to browse?

What does Xerte Image Search offer that these don't?
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I'm assuming you didn't click on the select tab

Because

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/pictureattrib/mangle.php?u
rl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Urtica-dioica(Blue
ten).jpg&original_url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urtica-dioi
ca(Blueten).jpg&license=wikipedia&flickr_id=null&size=full

and

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe
dia/commons/8/87/Urtica-dioica(Blueten).jpg&imgrefurl=http://ru.wikipedi
a.org/wiki/%25D0%25A4%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B9%25D0%25BB:Urtica-dioica(Bluete
n).jpg&usg=__Tlh58h17jZoxi-nis6ChuSF0isE=&h=1075&w=1434&sz=188&hl=en&sta
rt=0&zoom=0&tbnid=Snel7lRPcL7KeM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DU
rtica-dioica(Blueten)%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26biw%3D1276%26bih%3D820
%26gbv%3D2%26prmdo%3D1%26as_st%3Dy%26tbs%3Disch:1,iur:f&itbs=1&iact=hc&v
px=188&vpy=160&dur=1094&hovh=112&hovw=150&tx=91&ty=71&ei=ftWETOnDCImHswa
qlMCaBQ&oei=ftWETOnDCImHswaqlMCaBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=3&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:
0

are quite different. This difference is what it offers, as well as
providing powerpoint files and code for embedding into blogs. No other
service provides this.

The site also searches videos and podcasts from one location, which
images.google or flickr doesn't do.

Behind the typically spartan interface what goodies lurk?
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What would you like it to do?

Or has this been developed specifically for integration into Toolkits,
to allow
authors/developers to find media in the Toolkits environment?
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Or both. It does both. When you access it via toolkits it sets up a
service to allow you to send your picture back directly without having
to download it locally. Outside to toolkits it offers different services
so it is contextually aware.

I'm curious as to how this was implemented. OAI-PMH? RSS?
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It's a mixture of RSS,OAI,external API,Screen scrapping,RDF,OAI-ORE and
lightweight web services.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
Sent: 06 September 2010 12:38
To: Xerte discussion list; A list to facilitate and support teachers
using Xerte Online Toolkits
Subject: RE: [Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution

This is a good idea and a useful tool (would be more useful with browse
facilities IMO), but it does seem to replicate existing meta-search
engines for media, in particular everystockphoto.com but also Google
Images (advanced search for "labelled for reuse"). What does Xerte Image
Search offer that these don't? That's not intended as a criticism.
Behind the typically spartan interface what goodies lurk? Or has this
been developed specifically for integration into Toolkits, to allow
authors/developers to find media in the Toolkits environment?

As a developer who's been, and will likely be again, involved in
developing/using aggregators, I'm curious as to how this was
implemented. OAI-PMH? RSS? 

Cheers

Fred

Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 03 September 2010 16:21
> To: Xerte discussion list; A list to facilitate and support teachers
> using Xerte Online Toolkits
> Subject: [Xerte] ANN: Xpert Image Search and Attribution
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> We've just finished a piece of work that will make it easier for you
to
> search for media released under licenses for re-use and to attribute
it
> correctly. I know some of you on the Xerte for Teachers list were
> discussing this very problem recently, so hopefully this is timely!
> 
> 
> 
> To see it in action:
> 
> -          Visit http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/
> 
> -          Search for something
> 
> -          When you get the results, click 'Select'
> 
> -          Then choose 'Get Image with Attribution' or choose the
> toolkits option
> 
> -          And you'll get the image back, with license information
> included across the bottom of the image and can happily reuse it
> knowing the image is suitable for re-use.
> 
> 
> 
> We' have also integrated this into Xerte Online Toolkits, allowing you
> to search, browse and select media for your Xerte Online Toolkits
> projects directly from the Toolkits wizard. A toolkits update will
> follow in due course: here's a demo for the meantime:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/media/imagefinder.swf
> 
> 
> 
> Please join me in a collective doffing of caps to Pat for all his work
> on this latest development.
> 
> 
> 
> We're showing it at ALT-C next week and will explain a  bit more about
> what we were setting out to do, and the problems and pitfalls we've
> encountered along the way: the session is on Tuesday 7th September at
> 14.50: http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/14982
> 
> 
> 
> J
> 
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