AmateurSpaceImages.com, A site to gather great amateur-processed space images |
AmateurSpaceImages.com, A site to gather great amateur-processed space images |
Dec 14 2010, 08:35 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I can't believe I haven't started a dedicated thread on this before now!! I wanted to open a discussion on the Planetary Society's plans to develop a website called AmateurSpaceImages.com, a place that will collect amateur-processed space images into one place that is easy to browse and search for great pictures, and from which you'll be able to share them easily via social networks. The organization of the site will be based on Photojournal, which is itself based on the way the PDS structures space data -- all images will be filed under the "target" and "mission" and "instrument," plus there will be image titles, captions, and correct credits; plus there'll be tags and a search feature. The site is currently under development and is planned for launch early next year (hopefully March, if the schedule doesn't slip). We're now raising funds from the community to support its development.
Some of you have been emailing me privately with questions; I think it'd be neater (and less effort for me ) to have that discussion in the open, on this thread. If for some reason you'd like your question to be anonymous, you can email me and I'll post it here. Since this is a website we are creating especially for the community that has grown up in and around UMSF, I hope you will participate in its formation! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Apr 12 2012, 01:08 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The redesign of TPS's website.
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Apr 12 2012, 03:25 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Yeah, sorry. I had to redirect my attention to our main site redesign. It's going to be awesome though, and the new site will actually feature such amazing 21st century innovations as KEYWORDS on blog posts, so it'll be easy to find posts containing amateur-processed images there! (In case my tone is hard to read, the lack of keywords or really any kind of metadata on blog posts at all has been driving me crazy for five years.)
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Apr 13 2012, 05:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
.../...It's going to be awesome though, and the new site will actually feature such amazing 21st century innovations as KEYWORDS on blog posts, so it'll be easy to find posts containing amateur-processed images there! .../... Great Emily ! A new site and more attractive means more members for TPS... Meaning also more actions to foster space exploration... "Vive la Planetary Society !" of which we are so proud of being members (since 1982 for me), thanks also to its nice team and to this your good work of our beloved "Bloguette par Excellence" ! (in French) Congratulations Emily for all you are doing for us and TPS |
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Apr 13 2012, 01:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I fully second this...and not only because I'm French (1989 for me. I mean, member )
And you're rigth Olivier: "blogUette" -------------------- |
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Jun 21 2012, 11:57 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Hi all. To gloss over an eventful few months in a few words, I've ditched the programmer and am just about ready to launch amateurspaceimages.com as a part of the Society's new website, which, as it developed, had pretty much all the capability I needed built right in. It'll be based on the functionality of the Space Images section of the site -- browse that to enjoy the keyword searching and nice page-filling display of huge images -- but I've added in some extra bits and pieces like authorship of images (which means you'll be able to pull up a dynamic list of your own images that have been posted on the site). There are a couple of small pieces that I have to wrap up, but it should be ready for prime time before long. I am posting now because I am finally ready to make a call to people who produce a lot of images to help me populate the site. When the site goes live there will be a submission form to upload one image at a time (and of course a moderation process) but I can also perform a batch import of properly prepared images and metadata.
So if you would like to see your work included at amateurspaceimages.com, here is what you have to do. It is a bit of work to do this preparation and I hope not to have to do it all myself. In a nutshell: For each image there needs to be a line in a spreadsheet or CSV file containing metadata. Image files: -- JPG, GIF, or PNG format, any file size is fine. Best way to send lots of files is probably something like Dropbox or Google Drive. Image metadata Fill out attached spreadsheet with one line for each image submission. There is an example line in the spreadsheet to help you. amateur_image_metadata.txt ( 1.84K ) Number of downloads: 453 Explanations of the columns: title: A few-word title for the image, used for display on website and for image alt text filename: image filename photo_credit: full credit line for the image data_date (optional but desirable): date the original data was acquired. It's okay to use either Y/M/D, M/D/Y, or D/M/Y, as long as it's obvious to me which one you're using. description: Paragraph used as caption and as short description in search results. 1 or 2 sentences. For usefulness in search, make sure it mentions the target and the spacecraft, good also to mention processor (you) by name. body: Optional (but HIGHLY DESIRABLE) extended description of the image and how it was processed. If you've written a blog entry about the image, you could paste that here. Use basic HTML markup for formatting (<p>, <a>, <em>, <strong> all ok). Links to original data sources would be great. It's also fine to put here a teaser and link to something about the image on your own blog or website or, for that matter, on this forum. Or include none of this. Finally: Anyone who has images on the site will also have a profile page that will index your image submissions. Here's a good example of an existing profile, of Ted Stryk. Please send me text and a 233x233 pixel photo to use for your profile! I am hoping to make this live before I leave for vacation in July. I have enough images to go live with now, and can add batch submissions afterward. But the more, the merrier! Bring them on!!! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jun 30 2012, 06:19 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Okay...it's been a busy week, and I've learned a lot about how to use (and, ahem, how not to use) our new site development tools.
This is still rough, but most of the elements are there: Space Imaging That page has links to all the other pieces -- a landing page for amateur images with easy one-click keyword searches, an archive by date submitted, a submission form, information on copyright and image credits, and a VERY incomplete and preliminary list of people whose images have appeared/will appear on the site. There's still much to be done, but I'm going on vacation for two weeks starting Tuesday and, realistically, I won't get a lot more done before then. I would love for some people to try out the submission form. Or, of course, to send me batch submissions! I've removed all the image resizing requirements above -- just send me original pictures and I'll handle resizing. Please! Submit images! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jun 30 2012, 06:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Massive congratulations on the launch. For a start it's nice at last to see the faces of some of the people whose work brings us so much pleasure and enlightenment.
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Jun 30 2012, 08:02 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Looks great, Emily!
Gotta get off my shiny metal butt & learn how to do image processing. (Paradoxical since technically all I am is a processor, but whatever...) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jun 30 2012, 07:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2087 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Might want to change the title of the thread; there's not much at the actual domain...
Site looks great though! |
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Jun 30 2012, 09:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
As a mere spectator I have no images to contribute, so the 'submit images' page is not for me. I hope it's OK to post here ideas about things worthy of inclusion. There is so much, but there are two things in particular I'd like to mention right away. The first I have always rated as one of the best collaborative images to come from this forum. No archive would be complete without it:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3324 My current favourite version is post 21 there, from dilo: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=8019 The other is the work of Rene Pascal (briefly RPascal here) who was among the first to assemble panoramas from the Huygens images. I hope this work will be represented: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j...0y8LLZCwB7D7Z7g PS Outside of UMSF I have to mention Hortonheardawho. He may not actively submit anything (I could be wrong!) but something of his work should appear. |
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Jun 30 2012, 11:14 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I'd like to encourage people like you to submit other people's images -- just ask permission first. I'm sure that especially the more prolific producers would not mind someone else volunteering to do submission work for them, as long as you ask!
-------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jun 30 2012, 11:42 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Might want to change the title of the thread; there's not much at the actual domain... I'm going to hold off on pointing the domain there until it's a bit more polished. You guys are getting a preview! However, http://planetary.org/amateur now points directly there. And machi wins the prize for being first to submit an image and get it approved. New image on the amateur imaging homepage! Thanks, machi. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 1 2012, 01:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
So the test was successful and your work is working.
Congratulations! -------------------- |
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Jul 1 2012, 03:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Thanks Emily for all your hard work - it looks really good so far!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jul 1 2012, 07:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 3-May 12 From: Massachusetts, USA Member No.: 6392 |
I attempted to upload a JPEG image which is about 34MB total size and about 18,000 by 3000 pixels (an assembled Apollo panorama). The web site's submission form rejected the image due to an apparent size issue. Emily, you had mentioned in an earlier reply that size was not limited -- but perhaps there are upper bounds?
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