Great! +1.510.499.0894 +1.415.830.3884 On Jul 22, 2010 5:37 PM, "Leonardo Cunha" <<a href="mailto:laobcunha@gmail.com">laobcunha@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Now I am. I will be improving some problematic tags. > > Best regards, > Leonardo Cunha > > > > 2010/7/22 <a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a> <<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>> > >> Yes, totally! Leonardo, you are a librarian, right? Nathan, how is >> your librarian status? We need your help :) >> >> Jon >> >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Leonardo Cunha <<a href="mailto:laobcunha@gmail.com">laobcunha@gmail.com</a>> >> wrote: >> > I agree with Nathan. As I have already said, lots of people don't tag >> appropriately, so searching and filtering becomes a problem. That is a kind >> of work that grows exponentially. There is a need of more librarians or a >> category of users allowed to change tags and descriptions. >> > I search for "car" and there is only 1 car in the first 23 results... :( >> > Best regards, >> > Leonardo Cunha >> > >> > 2010/7/21 Nathan Eady <<a href="mailto:eady@galion.lib.oh.us">eady@galion.lib.oh.us</a>> >> >> >> >> chovynz <<a href="mailto:chovynz@gmail.com">chovynz@gmail.com</a>> writes: >> >> >> >> > I'm aware of the clipart, I don't necessarily agree with the >> >> > decision to hide them. Was it due to the title and wording only or >> >> > the fact that they can be undressed? What's the way forward with >> >> > these types of cliparts? Where's the line? Is it if the title or >> >> > tags says such things, or is it any clipart that can be "undressed" >> >> > irrespective of words? >> >> >> >> I think they need to have whatever keywords are necessary to inform >> >> people who are deliberately filtering out images that contain nudity >> >> in a sexual context (or computer programs that are attempting to do so >> >> automatically) that these images match that criterion and should be >> >> filtered out. Elementary schools, for instance, might want to provide >> >> a clipart collection to their students, and such images would most >> >> likely be unwelcome in such a collection. So it needs to be >> >> relatively easy to filter them out. >> >> >> >> In general, I think we could stand to do a lot more editing work on >> >> the keywords, to make the collection more searchable, more sortable, >> >> and more filterable. Anything that obviously depicts alcohol or >> >> tobacco should have an appropriate keyword for that, for example, and >> >> currently some of them don't. Many images are hard to find because >> >> they lack the words people would use to try to find them. Other >> >> keywords appear on virtually every image for no apparent reason, so >> >> that it's unnecessarily difficult to find the images that are actually >> >> relevant. (Try, for instance, to search for an image of a book, and >> >> you'll see what I mean about irrelevant results.) >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Nathan Eady >> >> Galion Public Library >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> clipart mailing list >> >> <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> >> >> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart</a> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > clipart mailing list >> > <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> >> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart</a> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jon Phillips >> <a href="http://rejon.org/">http://rejon.org/</a> >> <a href="http://fabricatorz.com/">http://fabricatorz.com/</a> >> <a href="http://status.net/">http://status.net/</a> >> <a href="http://rejon.status.net">http://rejon.status.net</a> + skype: kidproto >> +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) >> +86.187.1003.9974 (china) >>