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Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 13.1

January 15, 2019

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Welcome

Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter.

Thanks for your support

To all Luminous-Lint subscribers and contributors I'd like to say thanks for your continuing support.

This newsletter announces some exciting new ways of improving your use of Luminous-Lint. Still lots of work to do but the wheels are in motion...

All the best, Alan

Adding Personalization to Luminous-Lint

Over the last fifteen years the content on Luminous-Lint has developed well. The links between the photographs has progressed creating a rich network of millions of connections throughout photohistory. Never perfect but improving every day.

There are virtually limitless pathways to explore on Luminous-Lint but at times you can forget a key image that you saw a few days ago or the name of a Theme you need to follow-up on. Luminous-Lint will soon provide ways of informing you when topics that interest you have been updated.

All this is possible with Personalization.

The most obvious advantages will be improving your memory (see below - Phase 2), suggesting images and topics that are relevant to your interests (Phase 3), sending notifications to you when Themes and Fragments have been updated (Phase 4). Later on you'll be able to export sections of Luminous-Lint that are of use to you.

Your data is your data and it will be up to you if you want to use any of this. No data will ever be transferred from Luminous-lint or made available to anybody else.

In the box below you can see an early prototype of what a profile may look like.

Phase 1 - Prototype (* This is where we are now *)

At present I'm in the Prototyping phase (Phase 1) so let me know what you would find useful and I'll see if it is possible.

As you can see above once you have tailored Your Profile it will save you a lot of time in navigating through Luminous-Lint.

Phase 2: Creating your own Bookmarks

If you have an Individual subscription to Luminous-Lint you will be able during this early phase to start building up a series of Bookmarks and these will be added to your Profile page.

As bookmarks function for you personally educational organisations and institutions are not able to have bookmarks but a solution to this may be developed in the future.

Phase 3: Adding intelligence to your Bookmarks

The Bookmarks you create will serve as a memory aid and save you time in keeping up with the Photographers, Themes, Fragments and images you are interested in but this is only the start.

Luminous-Lint already has Visual Indexes that know that if you are interested in a photograph of the Tomb of Absalom in the Valley of Jehosaphat, now known as the Kidron Valley, near Jerusalem you will be interested in other photographs of the same archaeological site taken by Auguste Salzmann, Louis de Clercq, Francis Frith, Félix Bonfils, Lehnert and Landrock and others.

Based on this knowledge Luminous-Lint can start to add intelligence to your bookmarks providing information and insights tailored to your interests.

In the illustration below Luminous-Lint is suggesting other examples of photographs of the Tomb of Absalom. As always you can click on the image to get a larger version.

Alan Griffiths, "Jerusalem: Valley of Jehoshaphat - Kidron Valley", 2019, 9 January, Screenshot, Luminous-Lint
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This application of the existing connectivity on Luminous-Lint means that when you make a Bookmark for a photographer who worked with Experimental and manipulated photography Luminous-Lint can suggest other photographers that may be of interest.

Alan Griffiths, "Luminous-Lint screen showing Photographers worth investigating for Experimental and manipulated photography", 2019, 9 January, Screenshot, Luminous-Lint
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If you select a photographer you might want to link to the photographs taken by that photographer.

Alan Griffiths, "Luminous-Lint screen showing a sample of photographs taken by Gustave Le Gray", 2019, 9 January, Screenshot, Luminous-Lint
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These are a few ways in which having your own profile will ensure that you get the best out of the highly detailed content on Luminous-Lint.

Phase 4: Setting email updates for your interests

In the early phases of the development of Personalization your Bookmarks will become increasingly powerful to speed up and enrich your research. This will be immensely useful but we can do a lot more.

As Themes and Fragments are updated Luminous-Lint will be able to send you updates if you require them.

How frequently you receive emails and their content will be totally under your control.

The first steps of Personalization will be rolled out for Individual Subscribers through 2019.

Geocoding

UPDATE (January 2019): All Fragments on Luminous-Lint have now been geocoded.

Geocoding stores geographic coordinates (like latitude and longitude) to allow sites and items to be located on maps. There have been multiple geocoding projects addressing photohistory and this is now being implemented throughout Luminous-Lint. This will be a multi-step process working down a hierarchy from Themes, to Fragments, to Visual Indexes and finally individual photographs. This will take years but the final result will be global maps that can highlight individual locations with the most significant photographic images related to them.

It is a work in progress but like the PhV (Photohistory Visualizer), already on Luminous-Lint, it will reveal different ways of navigating through photohistory in profound ways.

If you have experience on geocoding and would like to volunteer your assistance get in touch.

So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date?

Given the scale of Luminous-Lint it is difficult to remember all the names of those who have helped in ways both large and small. Having said that one should always try so I‘ve added an "Acknowledgements" page to get the ball rolling. As you go through it you will get a sense of the truly international scope of this project.

My gratitude to you all for subscribing to, and supporting, Luminous-Lint.

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

A FREE TRIAL for the website is currently available so send an email to alan@luminous-lint.com with your name and reasons for wanting to take a look and I'll set up a password for you.

Educational subscriptions

It is time to ensure that your subscription to Luminous-Lint has been confirmed. Please check with whoever manages subscriptions to digital resources to ensure all is well. If you are a professor, researcher or student requiring access to Luminous-Lint please contact your head of department or librarian.

If you need any assistance with curriculum planning or resources to supplement your courses send me an email.

Getting around

Stereographs Project

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Video feeds, audio feeds, and enhanced media documents

Welcome

Thanks for your support

Adding Personalization to Luminous-Lint

Phase 1 - Prototype (* This is where we are now *)

Phase 2: Creating your own Bookmarks

Phase 3: Adding intelligence to your Bookmarks

Phase 4: Setting email updates for your interests

Geocoding

So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date?

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

Educational subscriptions

Recently updated Themes

Getting around

PhotographersConnectionsDirectory

Stereographs Project

Library

Video feeds, audio feeds, and enhanced media documents

Welcome

Thanks for your support

Adding Personalization to Luminous-Lint

Phase 1 - Prototype (*** This is where we are now ***)

Phase 2: Creating your own Bookmarks

Phase 3: Adding intelligence to your Bookmarks

Phase 4: Setting email updates for your interests

Geocoding

So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date?

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

Educational subscriptions

Recently updated Themes

Phase 1 - Prototype (* This is where we are now *)