For architectural historians flickr offers a potentially useful feature: you can record the exact coordinates where a picture was taken and thus make pictures of buildings, cityscapes, an the natural environments of architecture browsable by map. All one has to do to make this happen is shoot a picture, upload it to flickr, and add a so-called geo-tag.
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Tagging images: verbally and/or visually
Making collaborative (simple) descriptions of digital objects by way of tagging has been a hot topic in recent years. Think of the retrieval tools offered at popular sites such as flickr, Last.fm, YouTube, or Amapedia. But works of art and other artifacts can be tagged as well. The databases that grow from such tagging behavior may actually mirror hidden visual knowledge, and thus become a source of more semantically rich (complex) descriptions.
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Content-based image retrieval + arts & humanities
Has computer imaging science managed to develop useful automated retrieval options for the formal attributes of (digitized) images, including works of art?
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