[Taxacom] Machine-tagging Flickr images with taxonomic names

[Roderic Page]

>
> That's OK so far as it stands, but the issue is that it can't be
> revered. We can't know (without prior knowledge) know whether:
>
>         diomedeaexulans
>
> refers to "diomede aexulans" or "diome deaexulans" or whatever.
>

Actually, Flickr's API can be used to recover the original ("raw") tag,  
see http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.getInfo.html .

Regards

Rod


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