Carl Boettiger to Science 2.0, The Life Scientists, OpenWetWare, Science Commons
I'm looking for a good solution to upload figures into my open lab notebook. Need fast, many photo, automated / scriptable uploading, permanent hosting, with searching/tags/comments. Trying photobucket: http://openwetware.org/wiki... Thoughts?
August 30, 2010
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I think ideally I would run a script which would run some code which generates a png figure, pushes the photo to the host site under a given album/tags and a link to the version of the code that created the figure on the project's github site. Since the codes take a long time to run, simply having the code version is no longer sufficient for me.
- Carl Boettiger
Have you considered the possibility of using Flickr to host the photos? They have an API, are quite inexpensive and I know that there is/was a plugin to add Flickr images easily into OWW (mediawiki).
- Ricardo Vidal
Yup, Flickr seems very promising since there's lots of development around it. Do I need to buy a subscription to make sure the uploads are permanent? Think I'll give it a try...
- Carl Boettiger
No, all uploads are permanent and I believe you can "display" up to 200 images for free. The last 200 are always visible and nothing is lost. If you pay the $24 USD/year, all images become public/visible again.
- Ricardo Vidal
Flickr seems to be a nice solution. With one command-line call I can have a full slideshow of results embedded into the notebook! http://openwetware.org/wiki... Each image can collect comments and other tags and be organized into groups. the command-line upload also doesn't seem to spam my FF/twitter feed even though I added flickr to FF. guess that's a good thing.
- Carl Boettiger