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Best Practices: Plaques

Photographing plaques: Best Practices


BP Best Practices for plaques


Shooting plaques

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Multiple images.

Set the scene.

  • Overview
  • Close-up
  • Tight shot if each plaque

Show in situ

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Show context

Show individual elements

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Transcribing Text

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Headings

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Body

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Work flow

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File types

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Multiple images of same plaque

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OCR recognize

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Languages

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Plaque Properties

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Orientation:

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  • Orientation
    • Vertical, Horizontal or other
  • Publicly visible
    • Viewable from street
    • Located on highway
    • 24 hour accessible
    • Illuminated?

Materials

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  • Metal
  • Stone
  • Glass
  • ???

Dimensions

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  • Size
  • Scale
    • Photo with object of widely known size

Condition

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  • Good
  • Not so good

Single or multiple plaques?

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  • Is this a part of an array or grouping of plaques

Examples of single groupings

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Examples of multiple groupings

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Mounting

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  • Affixed to building Structure
  • Mounted in/on sidewalk--intended for people to walk over
    • Embedded in sidewalk
  • Affixed to, or embedded within, rock or boulder
  • Standalone sign
  • Affixed to, mounted in addition to, road sign

Dates

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  • Date Installed
  • Dates shown
  • Dates commemorated


Plaque Series, Plaque Sponsor

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  • Is this one of many plaques erected by an organization?


Questions?

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Market Size

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Counts of files in categories

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Given a category on Commons I want to get:

  • Count of files assigned to category
  • List of files assigned to category
  • Count of sub-categories and
    • Count of files in each sub-category
    • List of files assigned to each sub-category
Solution for: Counts of files in categories
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  • PetScan
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though it would be nice to script ...


Tools

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CatAnalysis lists a whole mess o data about edits, contributions, editors, files, etc...

Example with: