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Category Archives: photography
Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please
Andy Mabbett calls on public bodies to provide open-licensed pictures of politicians and senior officers. Continue reading
Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, open data, photography, Wikipedia
Tagged accountability, aerial photography, Birmingham City Council, blogging, Bull Ring, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, democracy, flickr, free, hyperlocal, journalism, libre, licence, licensing, local government, localgovweb, open data, open licence, opendata, OpenlyLocal, Paul Tilsley, photography, politicians, politics, social media, web, West Midlands Police, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia
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Open-licensing your images. What it means and how to do it.
Andy Mabbett gives an introduction to the concept of open-licensing images, and explains how you can contribute to the community by open-licensing yours. Continue reading
Posted in open data, photography, Wikipedia
Tagged CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, flickr, free, journalism, King Kong, libre, licence, licensing, Nicholas Monro, open data, open licence, Philip Mould, social media, web, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia
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Portrait with Brompton Bike
Portraits of Andy Mabbett, part of the Birmingham Cyclists project by Pete, aka Dividenthal. Continue reading
Posted in about me, Birmingham, photography
Tagged bike, Birmingham, Brompton, cycling, Dividenthal, MabsBrompton, pigsonthewing, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing
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Ian Emes’ ‘French Windows’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’ at Ikon
Ian Emes’ video for Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’, ‘French Windows’, is part of an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, until September 2010 Continue reading
Taxonomic machine tags
0000-0001-5882-6823Images on Flickr (and other sites?) can be tagged with “machine tags“. For living things, these can convey taxonomic information. For example: taxonomy:binomial=Larus melanocephalus taxonomy:genus=Larus Flickr collapses these to: “larusmelanocephalus” and “larus“, but note that subtracting one from the other … Continue reading
Posted in nature, photography, web standards
Tagged machine tags, species, tags, taxonomy
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