automate copyright-metainformation for graphics

Submitted by villon on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 19:02
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I am looking for a way to automatically assign copyright or meta information for the images used in a module for all images or other sources.
zum.de has recently implanted stricter copyright guidelines and this makes it a bit cumbersome when I create a module that contains many images, so I would like to have this simplified.
Thanks

villon

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otacke

Tue, 03/16/2021 - 21:49

Hi villon!

Could you please elaborate what exactly you have in mind? How should automatically assigning copyright metadata work?

Best,
Oliver

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villon

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 16:41

Moin Oliver,

zum.de has rightly made its copyright control more restrictive. So that every element is carefully checked, regardless of whether I created it myself or not. However, since I would like to create more learning modules, especially for mathematics, which are to be provided with small graphics, this means a lot of extra work, which I would like to make easier for myself. Editing exifs might be one approach, but I don't really know how to do it yet, so I asked here in the forum if anyone had a solution.
Best regards

villon

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otacke

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 23:07

Hi villon!

Yes, I know about ZUM. Them becoming more restrictive is a direct response to users who are just looking for free hosting and who are ignoring their rules about licensing.

I am sure the H5P core team would be grateful if you described the workflow that you have in mind in more detail. Maybe BV has more insight.

Best,

Oliver 

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villon

Fri, 03/19/2021 - 18:49

Sers Oliver,

I'm not a programmer, I'm a searcher and builder of content. I found traces of ccPublisher to solve my problem but only traces and nothing more. I post to the developers here about an idea of a media-module which allowed to handle itself, maybe in my direction.

We will see

Greetings villon

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otacke

Fri, 03/19/2021 - 19:19

Hi!

I was not suggesting that you outline some code, but clearly specify what you intend to happen if you to this or that.

Best,

Oliver 

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BV52

Fri, 03/19/2021 - 19:28

Hi villon,

I agree with Oliver. I think prior to reaching out to the H5P core team there should be some suggestion on how this could be implemented. With the impending release of the OER Hub there are some improvements on Metadata, I don't think there is enough time to plan and development additional changes to how copyright/metadata is populated. It would help a lot if there are some suggestions on how it should work, should the be some template of some sort, automatic population etc. I am not promising that the core team will implement such improvements but it is always better to have some idea prior to development.

-BV

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villon

Fri, 03/19/2021 - 20:25

Sers Oliver and BV52,

thanks for your fast reply.

As I said, I am the practitioner in the teaching profession. In this respect, I can only abstract rudimentary approaches to solutions.
Regarding the problem that is close to my heart and that I almost stumbled over, I had the idea of a separate media module, however that would be designed. Even earlier this would be done on the user side, by editing the exif data, although I don't really know whether this data would then find its place in the h5p modules as copyright data. Otherwise, I'm just running out of ideas. As I said, ccPublisher was probably an approach, but this is no longer findable.

Sincerly

villon

 

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otacke

Sat, 03/20/2021 - 11:52

Hi Villon!

Again: Nobody is expecting you describe or discuss technical solutions. In fact, discussing solutions before the actual problem is understood may be counter-productive.

Exactly BECAUSE you're a teaching professional, it'd be helpful if you extensively described what could be improved. This could for example be done as a list of items resembling this scheme:

When as a teacher I do this thing, currently that other thing happens. Instead, I'd love if yet another thing happened in order to do or experience something else. That's be important for many, because of this and that reason.

No technical expertise whatsoever required, but the need to really explain what's going through your mind as there are people with various backgrounds and things that are obvious to you are not to others. Same as in teaching, I guess.

Best,

Oliver 

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villon

Sat, 03/20/2021 - 12:12

You're right, Oliver, and sometimes I need to be pushed to think more emphatically.
So the following process: I create a course presentation, as in the attached example, with a relatively large number of individual exercises. In this case, to add up to twenty. These are set up as cloze exercises. As each exercise is intended for first graders, it contains a graphic above each cloze exercise. Because I would like to make many of these course presentations, after the upload attempt at zum.de, which was rejected due to the lack of copyright notices, I wondered whether the process of attributing the images could be simplified or even automated, instead of manually going through the metadata of each individual image each time. I hope I have now expressed myself more clearly.

 

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villon

Mon, 03/22/2021 - 20:58

Vielleicht hilft es ja auch anderen, die ihre Grafiken selbst erstellen.  In inkscape kann man die default.svg in den Dokumenteneinstellungen dahingehend editieren, dass auch alle zukünftigen neuen Grafiken in den Metadaten Urheberrechtshinweise und den Autor enthalten. Dies sollte dann auch für exportierte Grafiken gelten.
Aber erst musste ich hier mal randalieren. Habe mir dabei den Kopf gestoßen und dann die Lösung gefunden ;-)

"Perhaps it will also help others who create their own graphics. In inkscape you can edit the default.svg in the document settings so that all future new graphics also contain copyright information and the author in the metadata. This should then also apply to exported graphics.

But first I had to riot here. I hit my head and then found the solution ;-)"

villon