[Annelida] 600 million pages, so let's find the annelid images

[Geoff Read]

Hi all,

No doubt you'll have seen book-plate images when browsing Flickr for worm photos. They were made available through the efforts of one person, Kalev Leetaru, last year.

Here's a method of isolating just those Polychaeta, etc, images coming from the 600 million pages of the Internet Archive.

Search using the link:  https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=polychaeta&user_id=126377022%40N07&sort=relevance

Then browse the result.

This for example is an intriguing image, which led me to a nice little paper I hadn't seen, and wouldn't think to look up:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20236855159/

After you've tried that, try substituting 'polychaeta' with whatever taxon word or word pair you are interested in.

Enjoy, and let me know of your own unexpected finds.

The background to making these images more available can be read here:

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/08/29/welcome-the-internet-archive-to-the-commons/

And more generally, analysing the internet archive as a source of massive data  is introduced here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2015/09/16/history-as-big-data-500-years-of-book-images-and-mapping-millions-of-books/

Cheers,

Geoff