[Clipart] Generate txt files for 0.19 release

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 19:51 +0200, momo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A fantastic and very user friendly feature could be to create a package on 
> the fly, based on search criteria:
> 
> I make a search with a few keywords (for example ANIMAL, CARTOON, COLOR). 
> Also, to filter the search results by quality, it'll be cool to have 
> someting like EXCLUDE CLIPARTS RATED LESS THAN (select 2,3,4,and 5 stars).
> 
> When the search is done, I can see the cliparts online (and download them 1 
> by 1), or download all these cliparts in a ZIP or 7Z archive created on the 
> fly by the server!
> 
> I don't know how difficult this could be to implement, but this would 
> definitely be a HUGE improvement to the library.
> 
> Molumen

Yes, this is a great idea. Although, there is lag for doing this and
some major infrastructure issues to consider. I think doing from an
admin security position is best so that we can use to build official
packages, and then think about how to do this on the per-user
level...you can imagine the load if 100 users are doing this and the
packages are re-used, etc...massive storage and computation...

Jon

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jon Phillips" <jon at rejon.org>
> To: "Ryan" <ryan at lennox.com.au>
> Cc: "'Open Clip Art Library'" <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:18 AM
> Subject: RE: [Clipart] Generate txt files for 0.19 release
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 10:21 +1000, Ryan wrote:
> >> I know we have talked about this jon, but im just throwing it out there
> >> again?
> >>
> >> How cool would being able to generate your own packages through cchost 
> >> be?
> >> Think of making a package with all the clipart that have been tagged
> >> "animal" and have a rating of > 3.5
> >
> > Yes, this would be killer.
> >
> >> They could also use something like this in ccmixter I imagine - like 
> >> making
> >> a random chunk of mp3 remixes that you can download at once and put on 
> >> your
> >> portable player...
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> ryanlerch
> >
> > It should be easy to make an extension called package builder or
> > something which would allow for selecting different filters for our
> > collection and handle building custom packages.
> >
> > For now, I think we should only allow admins to do this, but ideally,
> > I'd like to develop some type of checkout where people could add clipart
> > to checkout basket and then checkout and download that package...down
> > the line...
> >
> > Also, it wouldn't be difficult to write a commandline script to make a
> > package from tags and ratings...please see examples in the bin folder of
> > ccHost for inspiration. Would anyone be interested in this task?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:clipart-
> >> > bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jon Phillips
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 9:43 AM
> >> > To: Open Clip Art Library
> >> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] Generate txt files for 0.19 release
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 11:18 -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> >> > > "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab at bright.net> writes:
> >> > >
> >> > > > "Michael Moore" <stuporglue at gmail.com> writes:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > I've almost got the 0.19 release ready. The images are sorted, 
> >> > > > > the
> >> > png
> >> > > > > thumbnails have been generated, and keywords propagated, but I 
> >> > > > > don't
> >> > > > > know how to make the txt files with the author/title/licence and
> >> > > > > keywords.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > I grepped the OCAL tools for "txt", but didn't see anything that
> >> > > > > seemed to be related.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Can someone please tell me how to do that?
> >> > >
> >> > > Did we ever get anywhere with this?
> >> > >
> >> > > > If we want to go the easier route for this release, I suspect that
> >> > > > the authority control script probably could be easily modified to
> >> > > > generate the .txt files if desired.
> >> > >
> >> > > Do we need to do this?
> >> >
> >> > I'm eager to figure out how we can start doing packages again. Jonadab,
> >> > how can I/we tempt you to jump back into the fold :)
> >> >
> >> > We miss you :)
> >> >
> >> > Jon
> >> >
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