Mediachain

The goal of Mine is to make metadata for digital images persistent and discoverable anywhere images exist. Today, information about an image, such as authorship or context, is quickly lost as it is shared across the internet. An image may start its life illustrating a news article on the New York Times, annotated with the photographers name and an insightful caption, but it quickly gets stripped down of any valuable context as it propagates different channels of the internet. We effectively know less about an image as it goes viral and reaches more people Mine wants to leverage the phenomenon of social image sharing in the production of a visual knowledge project. Mine uses computer vision to connect the thousands of different appearances of an image, over a thousand contexts and across any platform into one source image: where everything about that image can be collected and known. The entire ripple an image makes across the world is shown under one heading and the Mine community filters what information is most important. Our goal is to disinter mediate media consumption and interaction, which today relies on centralized platforms such as Facebook and Twitter which monetize their users and all the content that flows through them with little benefit to the communities that create that value. This is why we are building our dataset on top of the blockchain, the same technology that enabled two people to exchange a financial asset with no middleman in the case of Bitcoin. We have specified a proposal for our open dataset in the Canonical Content Registry: https://github.com/mine-code/canonical-content-registry