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Steve Crossan, Google Cultural Institute. 

At Open Culture 2012

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Very nice to be here. Thank you very much for inviting me.

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My name is Steve Crossan and I run an organisation called the Google Cultural Institute.

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And this is it's logo, which proves it is a real thing.

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It sounds like The Google Cultural Institute is a very fancy thing, some big lovely place somewhere ...

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actually we are in Paris, which is quite nice.

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But it is not at all fancy.

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It has got a fancy name but it is not a very fancy thing at all.

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Really, it is just an engineering group.

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Were an engineering group at Google.

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You have seen those things before: they produce things like Google Books, and Google Maps ...

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we're one of those.

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What we do is we produce products for the cultural sector.

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Essentially products and services for the cultural sector.

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That's the work that we do.

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some not so good ...
some mistakes we made

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ultra high close-up
google art project

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nice things about this piece of technology
do not need to move the painting
only 10.000 eur

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The trick is all in software. 
takes around 10 hours

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art project

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interior streetviews of museums

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you can go further. you do not need google. scanner of 1-1 resolution

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multi ... nasa camera
pictures of earth from space

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what went wrong... wrong problem to attack.

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nokia camera is the future of digitization

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smartphones

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two years later

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never win this race

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invest somewhere else

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digital photography revolution

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more interesting revolution in software

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stitching together images

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pretty soon in your smartphone for doing interior streetview yourself

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apps like camscanner

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correct crop automatically, ocr all on your smarthpone

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software rather than hardware interesting

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open platform

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very good projects that digitize material

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that part of the pipeline (is not interesting for google)

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holocaust era various levels of metadata

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that is another problem, more interesting to put resources in

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how does a user get a sense of it

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handwritten notes on the back, ocr ... good result

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text in the image

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looking for your grandmother
forged visa

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other things like place recognition, clustering of same persons

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it is great to put this on line

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of course you can search

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persuade 155 museums

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how do I start to engage with it as a user. not taken by the hand

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a prisoner 1941

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comments implemented

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brave thing to do

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no pre-moderation

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controversial comments

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this is my grandfather

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he went into hiding liberated by the Russians

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for years later, not a German spy