{"id":164,"date":"2013-10-14T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/?p=164"},"modified":"2013-10-14T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T15:22:00","slug":"crowdsourcing-the-herbert-e-striner-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/crowdsourcing-the-herbert-e-striner-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing the Herbert E. Striner Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHerbert Striner is a former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University.  As an amateur photographer, Striner took photos of a variety of subjects in the United States and abroad including the Washington Monument, National Cathedral, Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, plants, and animals.<br \/>\nThe collection includes over 8,000 images taken by Herbert E. Striner beginning in the 1940s and ending around 1998.  Due to the sheer number of images in the collection, we need your help to correctly label and identify the subjects of each photo, negative, and slide.  By lending a hand, you will enable the AU Archive and Special Collections to complete image metadata, which is necessary to make the collection easier to search and use.  Not only will you provide valuable assistance, but you\u2019ll also have a chance to view some pretty incredible images from around the globe.<br \/>\nHelp us out.  Employ your knowledge and expertise of people, places, plants, clouds, animals, events, and general history.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to begin?  Here\u2019s how to get started:<br \/>\n1.\tView the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aulibrary\/sets\/72157634664527565\/\" title=\"Herbert E. Striner Collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbert Striner <\/a>collection on Flickr.<br \/>\n2.\tUse the \u201cComment\u201d box to add information about location, event, people, and dates.  You will have to log in, or create an account, to leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for helping us build useful metadata for this collection.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert Striner is a former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University. As an amateur photographer, Striner took photos of a variety of subjects in the United States and abroad including the Washington Monument, National Cathedral, Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, plants, and animals. The collection includes over 8,000 images taken by Herbert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-collections","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}