tagging

tool: Flickr

Purpose: 

Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment and rate photographs, artwork, illustrations, screenshots and videos. Images may be shared via Flickr galleries or embedded in external blogs and social media. Hosting approximately 4 billion images, Flickr is also available for unregistered users to search and browse galleries and navigate geospatial maps.

Features: 
  • 100MB monthly upload limit (Free accounts); unlimited uploads (Pro subscribers)
  • High Definition video uploads
  • Available in 8 languages
  • Metadata tagging to form tag-clouds and folksonomies
  • Application Programming Interface (API) enables independent programmers to expand Flickr applications
  • Ajax emulates the functionality of desktop photo applications
  • Uploadr drag-and-drop desktop client allows users to upload photos outside the web interface
  • Private and public image storage
  • Guest pass allows private photos to be shared with unregistered users
  • SafeSearch filtering controls
  • RSS and Atom feeds
  • Direct uploads from email and cameraphones
  • Merchandising of canvas prints, posters, cards, calendars and photo books
  • Copyright and creative commons license options
A&H use case 1 description: 
Over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections were catalogued to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings. The Open Access virtual museum uses Flickr to import images that are displayed as dynamic photo galleries on the website.
Creator: 
Ludicorp
Publisher: 
Yahoo! Inc
Specifications: 
JPEG
PNG
Ajax
Macromedia Flash
GIF
Data publishing and dissemination: 
User contributed content
Data capture: 
2d scanning and photography
Software/programming languages used: 
flickr
Discipline: 
Visual Arts
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Photography
Alternate tool(s): 

Photobucket

Tags: 
Photography
video
blogging
web services
tag cloud
social media
tagging
Geospatial technology
online community
image galleries
file storage
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
JavaScript enabled browser
Mac OS X
Mobile devices
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
By danafarra at Tue, 08/06/2010 - 17:11

tool: WordPress

Purpose: 

A blog publication system that may be used for basic content management. WordPress is widely used within the arts and humanities community. It offers a template and theme management system, which can be used by administrators to configure their blog without the need to edit PHP or HTML code. A plug-in architecture enables developers and users to expend functionality beyond that provided in the base installation.

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Mapping Medieval Chester use WordPress to document activities associated with their project.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The Imagining History project used WordPress to document activities associated with the project.
Creator: 
Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little and other software developer
Publisher: 
Matt Mullenweg
Data analysis: 
Collating
Indexing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
Collaborative publishing
User contributed content
Data capture: 
Use of existing digital data
Specifications: 
PHP
MySQL
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Text encoding - presentational
Alternate tool(s): 

Blogger

Tags: 
blog
weblog
tagging
Software/programming languages used: 
WordPress
Platform: 
Any system that supports PHP and a RDBMS
PHP
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 15:34