Published on Play Store March 28, 2015 (currently desactivated on Play Store)

Second Prize @ Hack4Fi Hack your heritage 2015 competition

Historic photographs in public collections very often lack basic classificatory tags – whether a picture is an interior or exterior view, has the picture been taken from ground level or from a raised viewpoint (a higher floor window or tower), is it a view photograph depicting mainly a place or a reportage photo about an event etc. Most of these decisions are easy to make for everyone only by looking at a picture, so it is useful to capture that information that would enable bulk filtering of images afterwards.

Sift.pics is a participatory crowdsourcing application for that kind of binary categorisation about images. We take in pictures from public collections that users start to browse and ask them to make couple of sorting decisions, they can favorite (bookmark) images, see the title of the image and open the image in an official web repository.

Sift.pics is a spin-off of Ajapaik and in the future we'd like to include the functionality of Sift.pics on the main Ajapaik platform.

Team

concept: Vahur Puik @puik

back-end development: Lauri Elias

android app development: Janek Priimann