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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 |