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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Jul 2 2012, 07:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Thanks and understood - so the two places are effectively quite separate for copyright purposes. It'll make it harder to include older UMSF stuff from people who no longer participate in the forum. That's a pity because, as we've seen recently on Phil's Spirit Retrospective discussion, old images have a habit of disappearing completely as hosting sites lapse or edit content. (I'd perhaps naively hoped that AmateurSpacedImages would have the power to intervene unilaterally to salvage and archive some of this endangered material.)
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