Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 13.1 January 15, 2019  Home • Photographers • Online Exhibitions  Contents • Alphabetical • Styles and movements • Articles  Visual Indexes • Galleries & Dealers • Timelines • Techniques  Library • Contact us Welcome Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter.     Thanks for your support   To all Luminous-Lint subscribers and contributors I'd like to say thanks for your continuing support.     This newsletter announces some exciting new ways of improving your use of Luminous-Lint. Still lots of work to do but the wheels are in motion...     All the best, Alan     Adding Personalization to Luminous-Lint   Over the last fifteen years the content on Luminous-Lint has developed well. The links between the photographs has progressed creating a rich network of millions of connections throughout photohistory. Never perfect but improving every day.     There are virtually limitless pathways to explore on Luminous-Lint but at times you can forget a key image that you saw a few days ago or the name of a Theme you need to follow-up on. Luminous-Lint will soon provide ways of informing you when topics that interest you have been updated.     All this is possible with Personalization.     The most obvious advantages will be improving your memory (see below - Phase 2), suggesting images and topics that are relevant to your interests (Phase 3), sending notifications to you when Themes and Fragments have been updated (Phase 4). Later on you'll be able to export sections of Luminous-Lint that are of use to you.     Your data is your data and it will be up to you if you want to use any of this. No data will ever be transferred from Luminous-lint or made available to anybody else.     In the box below you can see an early prototype of what a profile may look like.     Phase 1 - Prototype (*** This is where we are now ***)   At present I'm in the Prototyping phase (Phase 1) so let me know what you would find useful and I'll see if it is possible.     Home > Profile > CO   Luminous-Lint is vast and it will be immensely useful to have your own profile with Bookmarks to assist your enjoyment and research.     They will allow you to follow Photographers, Themes and Fragments that interest you, remember Images that match your needs and encourage you to have a personalized Directory of contacts. As these profiles evolve they will notify you about updates to content and assist you in lots of other ways.     PROFILE pages will only be available to Luminous-Lint Individual Subscribers.       The future Phase 1: Prototyping *** IN PROGRESS ***     Phase 2: Creating your own Bookmarks     Phase 3: Adding intelligence to your Bookmarks     Phase 4: Setting email updates for your interests Your Bookmarks: PHOTOGRAPHERS Lists the photographers you are interested in. Sorts: Surname [Default] / Date bookmarked 1 Ansel Adams  _bookmark_email   testerZ01@luminous-lint.com  _bookmark_engine   z01  _bookmark_action   photographer  _bookmark_param_01   Ansel__Adams  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display 2 Brassaļ  _bookmark_email   testerZ01@luminous-lint.com  _bookmark_engine   z01  _bookmark_action   photographer  _bookmark_param_01   Brassai  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display 3 Robert Frank  _bookmark_email   testerZ01@luminous-lint.com  _bookmark_engine   z01  _bookmark_action   photographer  _bookmark_param_01   Robert__Frank  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display 4 Herbert List  _bookmark_email   testerZ01@luminous-lint.com  _bookmark_engine   z01  _bookmark_action   photographer  _bookmark_param_01   Herbert__List  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display      Your Bookmarks: THEMES Gives you quick access to Themes Sorts: Name [Default] / Date bookmarked 1   _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   1  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display 2   _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   1003  _bookmark_param_02   interface    Remove    Display 3   _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   1003  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display 4   _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   _photographer_alvin_langdon_coburn_vortcism_01  _bookmark_param_02   interface    Remove    Display 5   _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   1  _bookmark_param_02   interface    Remove    Display 6   _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   _photographer_alvin_langdon_coburn_vortcism_01  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display      Your Bookmarks: FRAGMENTS Takes you to detailed topics and clusters of photographs Sorts: Name [Default] / Date bookmarked 1 Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism  _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   _photographer_alvin_langdon_coburn_vortcism_01  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display bookmark: _photographer_alvin_langdon_coburn_vortcism_01 2 Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism  _bookmark_email     _bookmark_engine     _bookmark_action   contents  _bookmark_param_01   _photographer_alvin_langdon_coburn_vortcism_01  _bookmark_param_02       Remove    Display bookmark: _photographer_alvin_langdon_coburn_vortcism_01      Your Bookmarks: DIRECTORY You haven't added any bookmarks yet!      EMAILS distinct *** Diagnostic purposes only *** 1   testerZ01@luminous-lint.com   1 Your Bookmarks: IMAGES Remembers the images you are interested in. Sorts: Date bookmarked [Default] / Title / Id / Photographer surname / Date   LL/7828   LL/86467   LL/37233   LL/83519   LL/82167   LL/65854   LL/39108   LL/61123   LL/85274   LL/23183          As you can see above once you have tailored Your Profile it will save you a lot of time in navigating through Luminous-Lint.     Phase 2: Creating your own Bookmarks   If you have an Individual subscription to Luminous-Lint you will be able during this early phase to start building up a series of Bookmarks and these will be added to your Profile page.     As bookmarks function for you personally educational organisations and institutions are not able to have bookmarks but a solution to this may be developed in the future.     Phase 3: Adding intelligence to your Bookmarks   The Bookmarks you create will serve as a memory aid and save you time in keeping up with the Photographers, Themes, Fragments and images you are interested in but this is only the start.     Luminous-Lint already has Visual Indexes that know that if you are interested in a photograph of the Tomb of Absalom in the Valley of Jehosaphat, now known as the Kidron Valley, near Jerusalem you will be interested in other photographs of the same archaeological site taken by Auguste Salzmann, Louis de Clercq, Francis Frith, Félix Bonfils, Lehnert and Landrock and others.     Based on this knowledge Luminous-Lint can start to add intelligence to your bookmarks providing information and insights tailored to your interests.     In the illustration below Luminous-Lint is suggesting other examples of photographs of the Tomb of Absalom. As always you can click on the image to get a larger version.     Alan Griffiths, "Jerusalem: Valley of Jehoshaphat - Kidron Valley", 2019, 9 January, Screenshot, Luminous-Lint LL/86625  This application of the existing connectivity on Luminous-Lint means that when you make a Bookmark for a photographer who worked with Experimental and manipulated photography Luminous-Lint can suggest other photographers that may be of interest.     Alan Griffiths, "Luminous-Lint screen showing Photographers worth investigating for Experimental and manipulated photography", 2019, 9 January, Screenshot, Luminous-Lint LL/86626      If you select a photographer you might want to link to the photographs taken by that photographer.     Alan Griffiths, "Luminous-Lint screen showing a sample of photographs taken by Gustave Le Gray", 2019, 9 January, Screenshot, Luminous-Lint LL/86627   These are a few ways in which having your own profile will ensure that you get the best out of the highly detailed content on Luminous-Lint.     Phase 4: Setting email updates for your interests   In the early phases of the development of Personalization your Bookmarks will become increasingly powerful to speed up and enrich your research. This will be immensely useful but we can do a lot more.     As Themes and Fragments are updated Luminous-Lint will be able to send you updates if you require them.     How frequently you receive emails and their content will be totally under your control.     The first steps of Personalization will be rolled out for Individual Subscribers through 2019.     Geocoding   UPDATE (January 2019): All Fragments on Luminous-Lint have now been geocoded.     Geocoding stores geographic coordinates (like latitude and longitude) to allow sites and items to be located on maps. There have been multiple geocoding projects addressing photohistory and this is now being implemented throughout Luminous-Lint. This will be a multi-step process working down a hierarchy from Themes, to Fragments, to Visual Indexes and finally individual photographs. This will take years but the final result will be global maps that can highlight individual locations with the most significant photographic images related to them.     It is a work in progress but like the PhV (Photohistory Visualizer), already on Luminous-Lint, it will reveal different ways of navigating through photohistory in profound ways.     If you have experience on geocoding and would like to volunteer your assistance get in touch.     So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date?   Given the scale of Luminous-Lint it is difficult to remember all the names of those who have helped in ways both large and small. Having said that one should always try so I‘ve added an "Acknowledgements" page to get the ball rolling. As you go through it you will get a sense of the truly international scope of this project.     My gratitude to you all for subscribing to, and supporting, Luminous-Lint.     Free Trial of Luminous-Lint   A FREE TRIAL for the website is currently available so send an email to alan@luminous-lint.com with your name and reasons for wanting to take a look and I'll set up a password for you.            Educational subscriptions   It is time to ensure that your subscription to Luminous-Lint has been confirmed. Please check with whoever manages subscriptions to digital resources to ensure all is well. If you are a professor, researcher or student requiring access to Luminous-Lint please contact your head of department or librarian.     If you need any assistance with curriculum planning or resources to supplement your courses send me an email.           Recently updated Themes   The following Themes have just been updated.     Actors  Advertising  Albumen prints  Ambrotypes  Architecture  Art  Backgrounds and foregrounds  Backmarks  Botany  Cabinet cards  California  Canada  Card photographs  Cars  Carte de visite  Cased photographs  Cases  Catastrophes  Children  Christian architecture  Cityscapes - Urban  Composition  Cyprus  Daguerreotypes  Daguerreotypists - Great Britain  Dead  Deserts and dunes  Droughts  Education  Ethnic and traditional costumes  Events  Evidence  Exaggeration photo postcards  Experimental and manipulated photography  FSA - Farm Security Administration  Flowers  Fruits  Geology  Hand-painted photographs  Head rests and posing stands  History of photography  Humour  Judaism  Land transportation  Landscape photography and environmental issues  Landscapes of North America  Legs  Marketing  Michigan  Mining and extraction  Mountains  Native Americans  New Zealand  Occupational  Occupations and roles  Painting on photographs  Pennsylvania  Peoples of the world  Photographic vans, wagons and cars  Photographing art - sculpture  Photography assimilated into popular culture  Photomontage  Poland  Portrait  Postcards  Props  Real photo postcards  Romania  Rooms and their contents  Scientific experiments  Scientists and innovators  Second World War (1939-1945)  Social outsiders  Spirit photography and paranormal manifestations  Staircases  Stamps  Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards  Still life  The Holocaust (1933-1945)  Tintypes  Toys  Travel  Trends  Vegetables  Women photographers  Yosemite If you have suggestions for examples and subjects that should be added please let me know.