Document what the community would like from ALA for delivery and linking of specimen images

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Document what the community would like from ALA for delivery and linking of specimen images #82

Closed ben3000 closed 4 years ago

ben3000 commented 6 years ago

HISCOM to document what the community's preferred technical specification is for the provision and linking of specimen images into occurrence records held in ALA. The resulting document should be in HISCOM's Business wiki, and contain some or all of the following.

Types of images for the ALA to handle (specimen, field, taxon etc)
Linking of images to other ALA resources (AVH, Floras, BIE etc)
What is displayed with images (image metadata) etc
Understanding of the ALA technical considerations (size, format, import/export)
For the community, what are the priorities for delivery (hero images, gaps, etc)

ben3000 commented 6 years ago

Supersedes #62 and #48.

elywallis commented 5 years ago

I have suggested the following changes to the description of this issue to make it clearer what you're asking ALA for:

ALA to provide clear recipes/methods/pipelines for upload of images.
ALA to provide advice on whether the image upload pipeline is different (and how) for upload of images to be visible on: occurrence records (in Biocache, AVH), species profile pages (in BIE), profiles platform/eFlora (in Profiles). Images for field sites, habitat etc yet to be decided.
ALA to work with community to determine what data is displayed with images (image metadata) etc
ALA to provide advice about technical considerations for image files (size in pixel dimensions, filesize, format such as tiff, jpg or png)
For the community to decide: what are the priorities for delivery (hero images, gaps, etc)

afuchs1 commented 5 years ago

I would like to add to this list - how images provided from institutions can be linked back to the provider. Both socially and technically.

Socially - data and images provided to the ALA needs to be better identified as to its source so that providing institutions are recognised by users of the ALA as holders of that data. Currently many users think that the ALA generates all this information while institutions struggle to show their relevance.

Technically - if the institution has a image repository and associated metadata (usually more than delivered to the ALA) which is available to the public then it should be possible for a user to follow links to the original source. This may go some way to addressing the previous point.

ben3000 commented 5 years ago

ALA requires that the copyright on an image it receives is CC-BY, which for some photographers is too far. That won't apply to all the images in a collection, though.

Actually, ALA accepts CC-BY-NC and CC0 as well.

ben3000 commented 4 years ago

Gill is going to trial both CloudStor and Amazon S3 and report back to HISCOM as part of HISCOM 2019 AGM.