Content type: Handbook

  • Provider API – Flickr

    Flickr APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. We run an hourly job to pull the last hour’s uploads from Flickr. You can find the documentation for Flickr API here. We currently use the flickr.photos.search method to query…

  • Provider API – Cleveland Museum of Art

    Cleveland Museum APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. We call the following endpoint from the Cleveland Museum of Art: http://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/api/artworks/?cc0=1&limit=X&skip=Y Here, X and Y are replaced with offset information (e.g., we request only 1000 pieces at a time,…

  • Image data reingestion strategy

    Goal In order to keep the data in OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. Catalog up to date over time, it is necessary to ‘recheck’ the information for each image periodically over time. This makes tracking metrics that change with time, e.g., ‘views’,…

  • Openverse Catalog

    About OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. Catalog is our database of metadata about CC-licensed works from across the internet. This data is found and parsed via Common Crawl data and open APIs, and the code is located in the openverse-catalog repository. The…

  • How to give feedback

    In the Polyglots Contributor Training course, there are related content and quizzes. Feedback helps teams to share information so everyone is working together toward a common goal. For localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list…

  • How to Conduct an Instructional Review

    Read this page in other languages: Gujarati (Google Doc), Hindi (Google Doc) Instructional Review Checklist The lesson plan follows the reusable blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in…

  • How to Finalize Description and Objectives

    Read this page in other languages: Gujarati (Google Doc) Objectives Guidelines Learning objectives must contain 4 parts: Audience – Whose behavior do you hope to change? Behavior – What is the new knowledge, skill, and/or attitude you hope to achieve? Condition – What are the circumstances under which they will demonstrate the behavior? Degree –…

  • History of Openverse

    OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org., previously known as CC Search, was originally conceived as a prototype at Creative Commons. Timeline February 2017: Launched as a prototype September 2018: Enters betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group…

  • Welcome

    Welcome to OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org.! Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. Openverse includes hundreds of millions of Creative Commons licensed images and audio files. Need a free-to-reuse image for a post on your WordPress site, free from known…

  • Team Roles

    You don’t need to be an educator to contribute to the Training team. We have a number of different roles on the team and ways to contribute. Join our #training Slack channel to find out more. If you are interested in any of the roles listed below, then please let our Team Reps: Muhibul Haque,…