[MCN-L] ‏‏RE : Google Goggles, Orphan Works and PLUS

[Jeff Sedlik]

Thanks Alan.

 

Eve, Google Goggles is more than a combination of google image search and
text search. Search results in google images searches are based primarily on
the context in which images appear on the web. Specifically, the text
surrounding the image, and the image file name.  In contrast, Google Goggles
uses object recognition.  It analyzes the pictured object’s visual signature
(and also uses GPS coordinates of the phone) to determine the type and
location of object pictured,  and then returns Google text results relevant
to that object.  Submit a photo of the Golden Gate bridge and Google Goggles
will recognize the bridge and return links to webpages containing text
relevant to the Golden Gate bridge. Google funded research at UCLA for
object recognition, and in addition acquired companies working in that
space.

 

As Google Goggles is designed to return all web pages containing text
related to type of object pictured, it is not an efficient means of
identifying rights and attribution information for a photograph, although it
may be used for that purpose by searching through hundreds or thousands of
search results.  The PLUS Registry is designed for one purpose – to provide
rights and attribution information in response to submission of a visual
work, or an ID associated with that work.  

 

As Alan mentioned, we are forming the PLUS Cultural Heritage Working Group.
This group will recommend revisions to the PLUS standards to support image
management workflows in museums, libraries, archives and educational
institutions.  For example, we hope to provide creators and rights holders
with the option to use the PLUS standards and PLUS Registry to communicate a
grant of rights allowing duplication of any of their works for preservation
purposes, even where other reproduction is restricted.  We are also working
with creative commons to support the communication of CC licenses using the
PLUS standards.

 

We invite all institutions to participate in the PLUS Cultural Heritage
Working Group.  Contact us at info <at> useplus.org

 

Thanks

Jeff Sedlik

PLUS