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Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

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Post by petergreen »

Ever since the DPReview closure announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248296 we were thinking how to preserve the 25 years of valuable DPReview camera data. Archive.org has been great, but it's not usable by the general public.

The best way to keep it safe going forward, is to have the community own it, so we open sourced it: https://github.com/open-product-data/digital-cameras

I'm aware of a number of attempts to make product data open-sourced, but none have the power of the photo geeks behind it :)

Thoughts or ideas? + really looking for some contribution love.

Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data
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Post by _gtly »

Nice work! Wish there was a site that held information on more than just cameras - expanded to all types of electronics, for instance.. seeing all the hardware from a manufacturer over time is so useful for making buying decisions.

EDIT: Ah cool, I see this: "OPD plans to expand our dataset to other product types." source: https://github.com/open-product-data/digital-cameras/commit/...

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Post by codersfocus »

Wow, did you get this up in the 10 day time period since they announced closure? It took me 2 months for my project.

I think I should really look into just scraping / importing the lens data at this point for cameralenspicker.com. I’ve been hand inputting the data… but it’s just too slow.

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Post by petergreen »

_gtly wrote: post #4

Nice work! Wish there was a site that held information on more than just cameras - expanded to all types of electronics, for instance.. seeing all the hardware from a manufacturer over time is so useful for making buying decisions. EDIT: Ah cool, I see this: "OPD plans to expand our dataset to other product types." source: https://github.com/open-product-data/digital-cameras/commit/...

Exactly! :) The lenses are coming next, but if there are requests for specific categories of things that would be interesting, we're all ears!

We're thinking gadgets, cars, music equipment would be a good start.

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Post by petergreen »

codersfocus wrote: post #5

Wow, did you get this up in the 10 day time period since they announced closure? It took me 2 months for my project. I think I should really look into just scraping / importing the lens data at this point for cameralenspicker.com. I’ve been hand inputting the data… but it’s just too slow.

We really had to step on the gas with this one. There has been just so much reverberations in the photo community that it became clear that it needs to be done (and quick).

This is a great effort! But yes, manual adding is slow, so the way is likely to crowdsource/automate it.

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Post by petergreen »

dn3500 wrote: post #9

What's the copyright status? The specs you have on there now should be fine, you can't copyright lists of facts. But if you put the reviews up will Amazon come after you?

That's why we're linking to reviews for now, instead of pulling them in.

One way is to summarize DPR member reviews with GPT4 and keep just the summary / score up.

Ultimately we want to make an awesome review tool on top of this data and start collecting original reviews.

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