wikiview: A New Tool to Help Discover Images Available From Wikimedia Commons
From a PetaPixel Post by Michael Zhang:
Wikimedia Commons has millions of public domain and freely-licensed photos available to the world, and now there’s a powerful new tool that helps you dive into the ocean of imagery for exploring or locating exactly what you’re looking for. It’s called wikiview, and it’s a graph-based visual image navigator.
The project was developed by Visual Computing at HTW Berlin, the same researchers behind Picsbuffet (a Fotolia stock photo explorer) and Akiwi (a semi-automatic image tagging service).
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