{"id":1661,"date":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/06\/05\/1612\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T22:00:00","slug":"1612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/06\/05\/1612\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked Data for public, siloed, and internal images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Windsor discusses <a href=\"\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/05\/26\/1608\">my previous blog post<\/a> on DAM News \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalassetmanagementnews.org\/semantic-web\/applying-linked-data-image-search\/\">Applying Linked Data Concepts To Derive A Global Image Search Protocol<\/a>. He finds better words than I did, rephrasing my suggestion as \u201ca universal protocol where images get described like web pages (HTML) so you can crawl them using search engine techniques\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph points out that large commercial image sellers might not want to participate in an open network: \u201cAllowing their media out into the open for some third party to index \u2013 who they probably regard with wary suspicion (e.g. Google) is likely to be a step too far.\u201d Maybe. Although they\u2019ll go where the customers are \u2013 a Google Images search for \u201cairport hamburg 92980935\u201d turns up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/photo\/train-arriving-at-hamburg-airport-train-high-res-stock-photography\/92980935\">Getty Images image #92980935<\/a>, so I assume that Getty Images wants Google to crawl their database. If an open image network emerges on the public Web, the commercial platforms will want to become a part of it once it reaches critical mass. What\u2019s more, one of them could even embrace the change and start building the best image search engine that crawls the Web! (A bit like the Getty Images <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/help\/gettyimages\/\">Flickr cooperation<\/a> but without the need to copy the images over into their database.)<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cout in the open\u201d is an important point: Many images (and other content types) will always be restricted to limited groups of users. Still, this is no reason to invent a complicated API for accessing them: In intranets, lots of non-public documents are available as HTML, allowing users and internal search engines to easily access them. You can do the same for image metadata \u2013 restrict access to the local network, require username and password (or API key, authorization token etc.) as you see fit, but serve it to authenticated search engines (and users) as HTML + RDFa anyway.<\/p>\n<p>A Web of images (to paraphrase <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judell\/status\/335554591183749120\">Mike Eisenberg<\/a>) with rich metadata that\u2019s easy to read for machines and humans? I have no idea whether we\u2019ll actually get there in the near future, but that\u2019s what we should aim for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Windsor discusses my previous blog post on DAM News \u2013 Applying Linked Data Concepts To Derive A Global Image Search Protocol. He finds better words than I did, rephrasing my suggestion as \u201ca universal protocol where images get described like web pages (HTML) so you can crawl them using search engine techniques\u201d. Ralph points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}