Purpose The “photosharing” site Flickr is one of the most commonly cited examples used to define Web2.0. This paper aims to explore where Flickr's real novelty lies, examining its functionality and ... photography. Several optimistic views of the impact of Flickr such as its facilitation of citizen journalism, “vernacular ... content analysis of user profiles and activity. Findings Flickr's development path passes from an innovative social ... membership. The broader context of the impact of Flickr is examined by looking at the institutions of ...
Tópico(s): Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
2008 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Aslib Proceedings
... site Del.icio.us [1], and photo-sharing Flickr [2], had given way to a kind of ... few years. But it wasn't happening at Flickr or Del.icio.us — their tagging systems hadn' ... for much of the academic research on tagging, Flickr and Del.icio.us had come to represent ... traditional information structures and the emergent structure of Flickr and Del.icio.us. Leveraging communities. Some systems ... a web service or application. Let's consider Flickr as an example. Flickr lets you add any text string as a ... lets users experiment with new features and services. Flickr's geotagging feature emerged from this kind of ...
Tópico(s): Web and Library Services
2008 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Purpose Flickr is being used by an increasing number of public libraries for providing access to collections and services for their communities. Public libraries are also using Flickr to build community engagement. Local communities are participating in building collections on Flickr, adding context and their own stories to images. ... public library expectations and strategic objectives for using Flickr. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses Flickr statistics from public libraries around the world as ...
Tópico(s): Library Science and Information Literacy
2010 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Library Hi Tech News
... utilizing folksonomies, such as the photograph sharing website Flickr, the social bookmarking website del.icio.us and ... favorites Figure 3 illustrates a tagged picture on Flickr. I took this photo of my husband Jason ... are sometimes called social classification. Collaborative tagging in Flickr Tag clouds, or visual representations of the most ... from CiteULike Social communities form around tags. On Flickr, for example, users can join groups focused on ... particular online community. Users can only join some Flickr groups via invitation or moderator approval. Speaking of ...
Tópico(s): Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
2007 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
... popularity of image tagging at sites such as Flickr (http://www.flickr.org/) has been a phenomenon to receive considerable ... I began thinking about performing a study of Flickr tagging. The first of these ideas had to ... small study of the image tags used at Flickr.com. To conduct the study I gathered the top 10 image tags of 14 randomly chosen Flickr users and downloaded them through the site's ... tags, I gave the files of the extracted Flickr image tags and the categories with definitions to ... the concepts of the tags as assigned by Flickr users. Five people agreed on 11 of the ...
Tópico(s): Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
2007 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Andrew Cox, Paul Clough, Stefan Siersdorfer,
Abstract Flickr, the large‐scale online photo sharing website, is often viewed as one of the ‘classic’ examples of ... online communities. One of the main features of Flickr is groups. These provide a means to organize, ... paper explores the scale of group creation on Flickr and proposes a new set of metrics for characterizing groups on Flickr looking at aspects of membership, communication activity, and ... and provide new insights into group formation in Flickr, such as the nature of larger and smaller ... that extend existing schemes; an approach for sampling Flickr to estimate the number of groups; new insights ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
2011 - Wiley | Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
... immune. Whether or not museums are actively embracing Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and the rest, their ... but also through the social platforms mentioned above (Flickr, YouTube, and so on). Although the museum may have a Flickr account, for example, the museum does not own or control the underlying Flickr site and its functionality. Moreover, people may publish ... photos of the museum in their own online Flickr photo-albums, called “photostreams,” without any editorial control ... content. In 2007, for instance, Tate Britain used Flickr to crowdsource photographs as an online accompaniment for ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2010 - Wiley | Curator The Museum Journal
... multilingual writing activities on the photo sharing site, Flickr.com®. It discusses how Flickr users deploy their multilingual resources when interacting with ... of the photo sites and profiles of 100 Flickr users was followed up by an online questionnaire ... Chinese and Spanish users. This article shows that Flickr is a highly multilingual Web 2.0 space, ... of their photos, and the perceived functions of Flickr. Our findings also reveal new relations between the ... participation in Web 2.0 spaces such as Flickr. Keywords: Flickr®glocal identitieslanguage choicemultilingual literacy practicesphoto sharingWeb ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2011 - Taylor & Francis | International Multilingual Research Journal
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Ivan Jarić, Ricardo A. Correia, Barry W. Brook, Jessie C. Buettel, Franck Courchamp, Enrico Di Minin, Josh A. Firth, Kevin J. Gaston, Paul Jepson, Gregor Kalinkat, Richard J. Ladle, Andrea Soriano‐Redondo, Allan T. Souza, Uri Roll,
... occurrences and distributions using various sources, such as Flickr, news articles, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Google Trends [ ... Scholar, 18.Jeawak S.S. et al.Using Flickr for characterizing the environment: an exploratory analysis.in: ... 16) Google Scholar, 21.Allain S.J. Mining Flickr: a method for expanding the known distribution of ... and various other climatic parameters were characterized using Flickr tags [18.Jeawak S.S. et al.Using Flickr for characterizing the environment: an exploratory analysis.in: ...
Tópico(s): Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
2020 - Elsevier BV | Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Tahlia Daymond, Margaret E. Andrew, H. Kobryń,
... geotagged photos posted to the social media platform Flickr and data from an online public participation GIS ( ... planning in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Flickr could not represent all of the social values ... of recreational fishing and Aboriginal cultural values. The Flickr dataset was more affected by accessibility from settlements ... determining where social values occur also highlighted that Flickr and PPGIS samples provide different perspectives on social ... after accounting for differences in sampling intensity. The Flickr dataset suggested that the social values occurred under ...
Tópico(s): Coastal and Marine Management
2023 - Elsevier BV | Ecosystem Services
Marco A. Petilli, Fritz Günther, Marco Marelli,
... to as purely linguistic experience. This study presents Flickr frequency norms as a novel word frequency measure ... as image tags on social media. To obtain Flickr frequency measures, we exploited the photo-sharing platform Flickr Image (containing billions of photos) and extracted the ... lexicon. Here, we systematically examine the peculiarities of Flickr frequency norms and show that Flickr frequency is a hybrid metrics, lying at the ... focused social media. Moreover, regression analyses indicate that Flickr frequency captures additional information beyond what is already ...
Tópico(s): Multisensory perception and integration
2022 - Springer Science+Business Media | Behavior Research Methods
Daniel Rubinstein, Katrina Sluis,
... 2 September 2007, by submitting photographs to a Flickr group, 〈http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/ ... at the Panoramio website 〈http://www.panoramio.com〉; Flickr's image map 〈http://www.flickr.com/map〉; and Woophy 〈http://www.woophy.com〉. ... popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html〉. 12. Compare Flickr's “interestingness”, a ranking algorithm for seeking out the “best” images on their servers: 〈http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/〉. 13. Flickr website: 〈http://www.flickr.com〉 (accessed 16 Oct. ...
Tópico(s): Museums and Cultural Heritage
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Photographies
Radu-Andrei Negoescu, Daniel Gática-Pérez,
... started organizing themselves in and around online communities. Flickr has more than 30 million users and over ... tagged and public. One very important aspect in Flickr is the ability of users to organize in ... examines an unexplored problem, which is jointly analyzing Flickr groups and users. We show that although users ... On a dataset containing users of 10 000 Flickr groups and over 1 milion photos, we show ... for a novel analysis of the groups-users Flickr ecosystem, which results into new insights about the ...
Tópico(s): Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
2010 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
... visual literacy skills when they take advantage of Flickr, an online photo hosting and sharing community. Two ... visual literacy skills of pre-service teachers through Flickr. The first was to help them decode visuals ... and sharing of knowledge. Visual Literacy Test, participants' Flickr logs, Photograph Evaluation Instrument and constructed interviews were ... sharing activities and measure perceptions toward participation in Flickr community. The results of analysis revealed that pre- ... were enhanced through online sharing and interaction through Flickr and they were able to communicate more effectively ...
Tópico(s): Technology-Enhanced Education Studies
2009 - Elsevier BV | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
... and blogs, through web-based systems such as Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, and Technorati, respectively. The ... between several motivations and users' tagging levels on Flickr, a prominent Web 2.0 photo sharing community. Currently, there are more than 35 million Flickr users, who have so far uploaded more 3 billion photos. Each Flickr user can upload images and make them viewable ... by designated friends and family, or by all Flickr users. Flickr users can annotate images with tags - unstructured textual ...
Tópico(s): Wikis in Education and Collaboration
2010 - Association for Computing Machinery | Communications of the ACM
... information, keep contact with others and express oneselves. Flickr group, as a representative one, is a user- ... browsing, it also indicates potential significance in organizing Flickr groups. In this paper, we focus on exploiting semantic hierarchies for Flickr group. Our proposed method involves two main phases. ... experiments on a real-world dataset crawled from Flickr.com. Experimental results verify the feasibility of deriving the semantic hierarchies from Flickr groups, which facilitate users browsing experience.
Tópico(s): Expert finding and Q&A systems
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
... Sowerbutts Art Conservation 2005–2007); Sweet One, "DSCN6011," Flickr, JPEG Image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetone/3670404259/; Canadian Pacific, "Parade Watcher," JPEG Image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/18378305@N00/2699548185/; NKRD, (näk'erd), "IMG_7634.jpg," JPEG Image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkrd/2630300367/; Lú, "Alexander Wood," JPEG Image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lu_/21785267/; S.S. Poseidon, "Toronto Pride Day 2 007," JPEG Image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/21795768@N05/2628197015/. 87. Monument Treatment ...
Tópico(s): Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
2011 - Routledge | Quarterly Journal of Speech
Weiqing Min, Bing‐Kun Bao, Changsheng Xu, M. Shamim Hossain,
... novel cross- platform multimedia problem: given two platforms, Flickr and Foursquare, we conduct the recommendation between these two platforms, namely the photo recommendation from Flickr to Foursquare users and the venue recommendation from Foursquare to Flickr users. Such inter-platform recommendations enable users from ... applications: 1) personalized venue recommendation from Foursquare to Flickr users and 2) personalized image recommendation from Flickr to Foursquare users. We have conducted experiments on ...
Tópico(s): Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
2015 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Richang Hong, Luming Zhang, Chao Zhang, Roger Zimmermann,
... this paper we propose to categorize large-scale Flickr users into multiple circles, each containing users with ... sets; (2) the numbers of photos from different Flickr users vary significantly and some users may have ... few photos; and (3) visual features from each Flickr photo should be seamlessly integrated at both low- ... dense subgraph mining algorithm is adopted to group Flickr users into multiple circles. Experiments have shown that ... on a million-scale image set crawled from Flickr. Besides, our method can enhance the transferal-based ...
Tópico(s): Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
2016 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Francesca Mancini, George M. Coghill, David Lusseau,
... study to validate the use of data from Flickr as an indicator of NbR on a national ... several regional spatial and temporal resolutions. We compared Flickr photographs to visitor statistics in the Cairngorms National ... Scotland to determine whether the spatial distribution of Flickr photos could be explained by known spatial variability ... nature use. Following this validation work, we used Flickr data to identify hotspots of wildlife watching in ... We found that spatial and temporal patterns in Flickr count are explained by measures of visitation obtained ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2018 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Thomas C. Edwards, Christopher B. Jones, Sarah E. Perkins, Padraig Corcoran,
... evaluating species distributions using the photo sharing site Flickr. The data are evaluated relative to those submitted ... likelihood that a mention of a species on Flickr represents a given species. The spatial and temporal analyses for our case studies suggest that the Flickr dataset best reflects the NBN dataset when considering ... no time constraints. The best represented species on Flickr in comparison to NBN are diurnal garden birds as around 70% of the Flickr posts for them are valid observations relative to ...
Tópico(s): Animal and Plant Science Education
2021 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Mariusz Ciesielski, Krzysztof Stereńczak,
... Poland using Volunteered Geographic Information data from the Flickr portal from 2010 to 2018. In addition, the ... on weekends and summer months. Analysis of the Flickr data distribution made it possible to identify areas ... use intensity (conurbation, Forest Promotional Complexes, mountain areas). Flickr data allowed partial inferences about the reason for ... recreational visitation is an important characteristic feature of Flickr data. Thus, data from the Flickr site can become a real tool for decision- ...
Tópico(s): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
2021 - Elsevier BV | Forest Policy and Economics
... cloud.” An example can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/tags In addition to the free ... Example websites where user information is geotagged include Flickr [4] (photos), Wikipedia [5] (articles and their photos), ... s Local Search site. Some websites such as Flickr have a built-in map display, such as Flickr [6]. Mapping. Using Web 2.0 features, some ... are also mash-ups, in this case, of Flickr and Google Maps. They can plot a map ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2009 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Effie Kapsalis, Katherine P. Spiess, Anne Van Camp, Michael Edson,
The Flickr Commons was created as a forum for institutions to share their rich photographic collections with the emerging Web 2.0 audience of Flickr; the Smithsonian Institution was the fourth member of ... microcosm for collaboration in the information age. The Flickr Commons project provided insights into how the knowledge, ... is enriched. By exposing Smithsonian content within the Flickr environment, the Institution is learning what content is ...
Tópico(s): Digital and Traditional Archives Management
2008 - Springer Nature | Archival Science
... strategy adopted by a number of users of Flickr, a popular image-sharing site: the use of ... itself. Many Web 2.0 sites such as Flickr, del.icio.us or Last.fm, offer their ... function, organized by Zollers in Table 1. In Flickr, tagging is not mandatory, and unlike other resource ... Marlow et al., the tagging mode supported by Flickr is "viewable", implying that users can view each ... as opposed to a prefixed contract or "dictionary." Flickr shows this emergent dictionary in a format that ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2010 - Association for Computing Machinery | Communications of the ACM
Nan Zheng, Qiudan Li, Shengcai Liao, Leiming Zhang,
... the last few years, the social media site Flickr has gained massive popularity. Besides traditional operations on photo sharing, Flickr also offers millions of groups for users to ... several collaborative filtering algorithms to recommend groups for Flickr users. In particular, we design and compare seven Flickr group recommendation models: three memory-based models and ...
Tópico(s): Expert finding and Q&A systems
2010 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Information Science
Pauline Rafferty, Rob Hidderley,
... e. the theoretically‐based Democratic Indexing project, and Flickr, a working system for describing photographs). Design/methodology/approach The approach to examining Flickr and Democratic Indexing is evaluative. The limitations of Flickr are described and examples are provided. The Democratic ... functions, is described. Findings The examination of both Flickr and the Democratic Indexing approach suggests that, despite ...
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2007 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Aslib Proceedings
Emanuele Quintarelli, Andrea Resmini, Luca Rosati,
... for personal or social benefit. Del.icio.us, Flickr, 43things, Furl and Technorati are examples of web- ... phrases. Some advanced tagging systems like Rawsugar and Flickr are already using clusters to address the issues ... such as Del.icio.us, Technorati, Magnolia or Flickr), will provide the basis to tune the facet ... icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Google Scholar Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Google Scholar 43things http://www.43things.com/ ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
2007 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao, Bineng Zhong, Hongxun Yao, Qi Tian,
... photos on the community Web sites such as Flickr. Discovering touristic landmarks from these photos can help ... report our work on mining landmarks from geotagged Flickr photos for city scene summarization and touristic recommendations. ... based on spectral clustering over the geotags of Flickr photos. Second, in each landmark region, we present ... navigation system, which works on one million geotagged Flickr photos coming from twenty worldwide metropolises. We have ...
Tópico(s): Remote-Sensing Image Classification
2011 - Association for Computing Machinery | ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
... on the use of the image-hosting site Flickr ( www.flickr.com ) as a forum for hosting, discussing, and collecting vintage ephemera. This article discusses how Flickr is currently being used and provides empirical data ... discussing and accessing collections. Furthermore, the adoption of Flickr by libraries and archives can extend the use ...
Tópico(s): Digital and Traditional Archives Management
2011 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Library trends