Presentation given at Internet Librarian International 2013 - Websearch Academy. 14 October 2013 on finding multi-media on the web.
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Moving to the media
1. WebSearch Academy
Internet Librarian International
Moving to the Media
Searching for Multimedia Material
Arthur Weiss
Email: a.weiss@aware.co.uk / Twitter: @awareci
www.marketing-intelligence.co.uk
14 October 2013
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2. Multi-Media Categories
≒ Still images (& Animated Gifs)
р Photos, Paintings, Line drawings, Cartoons, etc.
р Charts & Diagrams
р Infographics
≒ Video
р Animations, video, etc. with/without sound
≒ Sound
р Music, spoken voice, noises, etc.
р Podcasts
≒ 3D Media
р Objects / 3D-printing instructions
≒ Interactive content
р Computer games, online training, etc.
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3. Indexing multi-media
Meta-Data
Content
≒ File Type,
File Size,
File Date,
Geo-coding,
etc.
≒ Colour,
Type (photo,
line drawing,
etc.)
Faces, etc.
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Textual
descriptions
≒ Alt Tags,
Image Title,
Captions &
other text on
web pages
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Links
pointing to
the media
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4. Image Searching
Image directories
≒ Commercial (pay to access) e.g. Getty Images, Corbis, Shutterstock,
Stockphoto, Fotolia and many more.
≒ Image sharing: Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, etc.
≒ Social media: Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.
Image search
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Google, Bing, Blekko, Yahoo!
PicSearch, Sprixi
TinEye
Stock Photo Collections: Everystockphoto
Infographics: Visual.ly, nfogfx.com and others
PicScout ImageTracker commercial software used to locate
copyright infringement
≒ Google Goggles (Android App) Identify pictures, sites & sights, or
scan business cards / translate text
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18. Image Searching Worked Example
Below are four pictures of steeples. I'm quite taken with steeples,
finding them fascinating, and love to take photos of them as I travel
around. Which of these is the oldest steeple? Identify each steeple
and give its construction date?
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/wednesday-search-challenge-which.html
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19. Image Searching Worked Example
The other three steeples
gave 0 results on TinEye.
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20. Image Searching Worked Example
None of the other steeple pictures could be located / identified using Google
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21. Image Searching Worked Example
Finding the answers.
Go back to the question: Which of these is the oldest steeple? Identify
each steeple and give its construction date? There is an assumption in
the question that all 4 steeples are linked or connected in some way.
Note how St Michaels Church is described in the Google description: St.
Michael's Church, is one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches
Look for information on the other 4 churches / search for images of
<Hamburg Steeples> / <Hamburg churches> on Flickr, Google Images,
etc. (Take care not to make assumption all steeples are from churches!)
The 4 steeples are
St Catherines
(rebuilt in 1957),
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The Rathaus
(1897).
St Nicolai (1874)
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St Michaelis
(rebuilt 1952).
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22. Video Searches
Video Collections
≒ Video Sharing: YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Metacafe,
Blip.tv, Youku, etc.
≒ Commercial: Various News services, BBC, TED, iTunes,
etc.
Video search
≒ Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Blekko, etc.
≒ YouTube
≒ PlayAudioVideo.com, Blinkx.tv
MOOCs and online learning
≒ iTunes, MOOC-List.com, Coursera, etc.
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27. Global TV
≒ Many (most) TV channels are
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now available online
р E.g. BBC iPlayer
Some cover multiple channels
e.g. Wherever.tv
Some restricted in some regions
e.g. Hulu.com for US TV
(overcome with Hola unblocker
plugin)
≒ Archive.org for some historical
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news (mostly US)
TVEyes.com fee based
service for searching
global TV for keywords
mentioned
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Access websites blocked or
censored with the totally free Hola
Unblocker VPN proxy service.
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28. Audio Searches
Sounds
≒ FindSounds.com
Music
≒ Shazam.com also tablet / phone apps
≒ Musipedia.org
≒ Mrtzcmp3.net
≒ Musgle.com / googlemusicsearch.com use Google API to search Google
for music
≒ Several others e.g. mp3-search-engine.com
Podcasts / Internet Radio / Spoken Word, etc.
≒ Podcastdirectory.com
≒ Archive.org
≒ Pandora (blocked in Europe), Last.fm, Grooveshark.com etc.
≒ iTunes, Spotify, etc.
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35. 3D-Printing
≒ Emerging area with several search sites
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Thingiverse
Defcad
3DBility
Yahoo! Japan
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37. Legal Issues
≒ Purpose for downloading / reproducing media
≒ Creative commons, CopyLeft, Licensing, Royalty
Free (vs. Free to use), etc.
р Commercial versus personal use
≒ BitTorrents
р Search Tools (e.g. isohunt.com, thePirateBay
although now blocked in many countries including the
UK)
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38. Any Questions?
Arthur Weiss is the managing director of AWARE - a UK based
consultancy specialising in marketing & competitive intelligence analysis.
Contact Details:
Web Sites:
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E-mail: a.weiss@aware.co.uk
Twitter: @awareci
Telephone:
Fax:
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+44 20 8954 9121
+44 20 8954 2102
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