We plan to launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content. The data from this will be as openly licensed as is sensible (given the nature of crowdsourcing) and the code, as always, will be under an open licence.
Don't count out dogged historians. We spend a lot of our lives looking at material not quite relevant to our research in order to find that one gem that answers a question.
That said, I am very pleased to read the other reply that mentioned their plans. I'm not waiting, though. I'm very excited to dive in immediately.
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This is a great initiative but as long as these images aren't reasonably tagged they'll remain undiscovered.
Yes but they have a strategy to address that:
Don't count out dogged historians. We spend a lot of our lives looking at material not quite relevant to our research in order to find that one gem that answers a question.
That said, I am very pleased to read the other reply that mentioned their plans. I'm not waiting, though. I'm very excited to dive in immediately.