[PRCo] Re: PRCo Photo Wiki?

[Dwight Long]

Herb

While I can't answer your second paragraph (all good questions), the answer 
to the first paragraph is easy:  If you don't want your photo to go into the 
public domain, don't post it on this site!

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:20 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Photo Wiki?


> Many of the people on this list, from time to time, complain about
> copyright infringement concerning their photos. If all these photos were
> placed on this central site, available to the world, wouldn't that make
> them even more open to theft?
> Who is going to do the set-up and maintenance of the website? How much, if
> anything, will it cost to participate in the website? Who will be in 
> charge
> of cataloging the photos and attaching captions?
>
> Can the PRCo List Archives be cataloged to bring about some order to the
> otherwise random photos?
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Herb
>>
>> It would have to be different because Dementix is on the dreaded ecartis
>> and
>> that would defeat the entire purpose of what Bob suggests, which is to 
>> have
>> the photo and the caption and the comments, if any, all together!
>>
>> Dwight
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:11 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Photo Wiki?
>>
>>
>> > Will this thing you speak of be a part of the Dementix.Org server or 
>> > are
>> > you thinking of a different  system on a different server?
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Bob Iannucci <bob at rail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> All,
>> >> I have appreciated the many photos and stories from this group, and 
>> >> I've
>> >> enjoyed the various
>> >> photo websites showcasing Pittsburgh's rich trolley history.  And, of
>> >> course, the PTM is a wonderful
>> >> resource for those who have the opportunity to visit.  For me out here
>> on
>> >> the west coast, I am quite
>> >> reliant on the online resources - this group and the websites.
>> >>
>> >> I have repeatedly felt that there is a need for something more, 
>> >> however.
>> >> The various photo websites,
>> >> or at least those that are still online, are fairly static, and only 
>> >> the
>> >> owners can contribute.  This group
>> >> is great, but email with attached (or semi-attached) photos makes
>> >> researching hard.  I have seen others
>> >> expressing the same thought ("I know it was discussed here a while
>> ago...
>> >> I know there was a photo
>> >> that was posted a while back...").
>> >>
>> >> I imagine something that is just a little more organized than this 
>> >> email
>> >> list, and something that is a little
>> >> more community-maintained than the photo websites.  I am thinking of a
>> >> photo wiki, not unlike Wikipedia,
>> >> but devoted specifically to PRCo.  Think of one page per photo, with
>> >> commentary from anyone who
>> >> wants to contribute a relevant story.  We have had LOTS of good 
>> >> stories
>> >> in
>> >> this group.  But in addition
>> >> to the photo, the photo credit, and the stories, I am thinking that 
>> >> each
>> >> page should also have a way to
>> >> indicate the date of the photo and the location.
>> >>
>> >> This structure offers several advantages.  The photo and the related
>> >> stories will live together on a web page
>> >> and can be easily found by search tools.  The date and location
>> >> information
>> >> offer the hope that we could provide
>> >> the ability to search by date range and/or by location.  Picasa and 
>> >> some
>> >> of
>> >> the other attach-photo-to-location
>> >> sites come close to this ideal.  A friend of mine in San Francisco is
>> >> thinking of something similar that
>> >> he calls Pastmapper.  So, perhaps there is a way to get this
>> >> functionality
>> >> using some off-the-shelf technology.
>> >> Or perhaps someone is already at work doing this and I just have not
>> >> heard
>> >> of it yet.
>> >>
>> >> I'd be willing to host such a site and support the underlying 
>> >> machinery.
>> >> But that alone is not enough.
>> >> In order to be a success, it needs community commitment to generate 
>> >> and
>> >> maintain the content.  If the
>> >> more prolific contributors to this group were willing to upload their
>> >> photos and paste in the stories
>> >> that they have written, I feel we would be off to a great start.
>> >>
>> >> So, my question is, what do you think?
>> >>
>> >> Bob
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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