AmateurSpaceImages.com, A site to gather great amateur-processed space images Options

[elakdawalla]

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!

[kemcab2012]

I've been working on some stuff in the back end of the website today, improving browse display of images and making one-click searches easier. Please make suggestions! I have not tested the layout across browsers so please especially let me know if there are display problems (including which browser/OS you are using).

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-top...ng/amateur.html

ngunn, the answer to your question is yes. I'd enter the images into the database as ordinary image file types but can easily embed zoomify versions below the page-width display of the image.

Not sure if this is intended, but I'm guessing not.



It looks like the margin-bottom for the style class 'item' is causing the first object in the top row to pop up above the others in the following environments:
Windows 7
Chrome 24.0.1297.0 dev-m
Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 (Browser Mode: IE9, Document Mode: IE9 Standards)

I did not experience it in Firefox 12.0.

Looking good, though.

[elakdawalla]

We have recently added two new capabilities to the Planetary Society image archive. We've upgraded the database and display templates to handle 3D images and some types of embedded video.

For 3D images, the database stores in a single item left and right images; red-blue anaglyphs; and flicker gif versions of a single 3D image. It produces cross-eye and parallel-eye versions of the image from the stored left and right pairs on user command. I'm still not entirely happy with how this works but it does function, and I'm going to worry about improving display after I have added more content to the database. Here are a few examples of 3D images in the database:
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...eronilus-1.html
-- http://planetary.org/multimedia/space-imag...john-klein.html
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...-curiosity.html
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...-burwash-a.html

For video, we can now handle YouTube, Vimeo, and Flickr videos within the database. Here are a couple of examples of those:
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...9-approach.html
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...oach-movie.html

I've recently hired an intern and also gotten a new volunteer who will, I hope, be able to start helping me fill out the database a bit. If you are interested in seeing your images (3D or otherwise) or video in our database and are willing to supply me with metadata for your images for a batch upload, I can do that. I now have more than 500 images in the archive, but I know that that is just scratching the surface.

kemcab2012, the display issue you point out is probably still there. I'm prioritizing upgrades to function over minor design bugfixes.

[elakdawalla]

We've been putting a lot of work into the space images library recently, improving the browse functions to make it easier to zero in on search results. It now contains about 750 amateur-processed images. Check it out:
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/