Auf dem digitalpreservation-Blog der Library of Congress ist ein Interview von Trevor Owens mit David A. Shamma erschienen:
What Do You Do With 100 Million Photos? David A. Shamma and the Flickr Photos Dataset
Every day, people from around the world upload photos to share on a range of social media sites and web applications. The results are astounding; collections of billions of digital photographs are now stored and managed by several companies and organizations. In this context, Yahoo Labs recently announcedthat they were making a data set of 100 million Creative Commons photos from Flickr available to researchers. As part of our ongoing series of Insights Interviews, I am excited to discuss potential uses and implications for collecting and providing access to digital materials with David Ayman Shamma, a scientist and senior research manager with Yahoo Labs and Flickr. …
Das Interview unter http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/what-do-you-do-with-100-million-photos-david-a-shamma-and-the-flickr-photos-dataset/