{"id":8997,"date":"2019-07-15T22:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2019-07-15T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:43:03","slug":"pictures-are-more-than-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8997","title":{"rendered":"Pictures are More than Images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nA recurring source of frustration for me are digital images made from pictures with nary any provenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neill-kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neill-kids.jpg 626w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neill-kids-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If I see a picture online that someone purports to be my 3rd great-grandmother and it&#8217;s the only picture I&#8217;ve ever seen of her anywhere and there&#8217;s no &#8220;source&#8221; listed or included with the image, how do I know it&#8217;s really who the picture purports it to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, this is the problem with any digital image. Actually it&#8217;s a problem with any photograph. How do I know the picture is who someone says it is? It all boils down to how reliable consider that source to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about this before, but I believe that including some provenance on the actual digital image is a good idea. Not just in the &#8220;metafiles&#8221; or the filename, but as a part of the actual image. That makes it easier for those who &#8220;copy and paste&#8221; to have the opportunity to copy and paste the provenance as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve tried to do in this photograph. I&#8217;ve included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Names of individuals<\/li><li>When and where photograph was taken<\/li><li>Who made the image<\/li><li>Who had the original photograph&#8211;someone vague in this online post, but my digital image has more specifics<\/li><li>Who made the digital image<\/li><li>How identification was done<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Just something to think about.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recurring source of frustration for me are digital images made from pictures with nary any provenance. If I see a picture online that someone purports to be my 3rd great-grandmother and it&#8217;s the only picture I&#8217;ve ever seen of her anywhere and there&#8217;s no &#8220;source&#8221; listed or included with the image, how do I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}