Archaeopix: a Creative Commons archaeology photo search tool
Alun Salt and I have been working on a new website to help simplify the process of finding archaeology and heritage-related photos that have a Creative Commons license attached to them.
Without further ado, introducing… Archaeopix!
The homepage features a photo of the day, which we hope to update daily. Clicking “Search” on the navigation bar takes you to the tool where you can look for CC licensed images which have been posted to a hand-picked series of groups and accounts on Flickr:
This is what Alun has to say about the search tool:
The clever bit is the search page.
Searching Flickr can be hit ‘n’ miss. Generally if you want to use a photo for a blog or educational handout and you need it quickly, it needs to be licensed under a creative commons licence. You can search on Flickr for cc-licensed photos, but a search for “Rome” will bring up everything with Rome in it. Groups are handy because they’re themed. So you could search the Archaeology group for Rome. The problem then is that you’ll find a lot of ©opyright photos. You really need a group which is all cc-licensed. Chiron is a good example of that. However Chiron’s strength is that it focuses on the classical world, which means you won’t find prehistoric Europe in it, or anything Mayan. This is where Archaeopix search comes in.
Head over to Alun’s Archaeoastronomy blog to read more about Archaeopix.
Link: Archaeopix
A number of Apple Mac wikis appear to be cropping up. The first one that I came across is 
Apple announced at the WWDC conference on Monday 6 June that it would be using Intel CPUs in forthcoming Macintosh computers from 2006. How might this affect the future of the Mac and OSX?
Brian 5:52 am on 19 July, 2005 Permalink
Thanks for that very thorough review. I have been using MarsEdit but just tried ecto today and agree with your assessment. One thing you didn’t mention was the iPhoto integration. It seems to just upload the image without an option to resize — is that right?
Tom 8:48 am on 19 July, 2005 Permalink
Hi Brian,
I mentioned iPhoto integration a few times in the review, and it works in exactly the same way as dragging an image in from the Desktop or Finder (with the exception of showing your iPhoto albums etc).
I have just tested it, and it does offer all of the normal options to resize. When you import from iPhoto, it puts the image in as a thumbnail, as usual. Double-click the image, and from the image dialogue just check the “embedded” radio button, go to the conversion tab, and select the relevant options from there.
It even gets the title from iPhoto, and puts that in the ‘alt’ tag.
It’s a stunning bit of software, and I haven’t really touched on some of the advanced features. Download the demo and give it a go.
Paul 9:18 pm on 20 July, 2005 Permalink
Tom,
Have you come across anything similar for windows…? My Mac is less than portable! I too have been looking to find an easier way to blog when i’m pootling round the country but haven’t found anything of any real benefit.
ttfn,
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Tom 12:31 pm on 21 July, 2005 Permalink
Have I come across anything for Windows? Yes.. Ecto for Windows :-)
Go to http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/ and look it up. It doesn’t have all of the functionality of the OSX version, but I would imagine it would do the trick.
You could also look up BlogJet (Win32 only), which is apparently a reasonable client.
Cheers,
Tom
Adriaan 2:50 am on 29 July, 2005 Permalink
Wow, quite an extensive review and very flattering, thanks!