[Clipart] agglomerator

[Jon Phillips]

Sure, this is a cool tool! If you would like to integrate this into the
Open Clip Art Library tools package, that would be quite cool IMO...if
interested...


Otherwise, great to figure out ways to plug this into our testing
system...I had setup some tests for stelt before on the whole
collection, so maybe good to run both tests to compare compatibility of
submissions.

I don't have much time to developer these days, but can hep point out
things...stelt, you might have something to add.

Jon

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 14:29 +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> if agglomerator is of interest to any developers who might help  
> develop and improve the code, please contact me, preferably via this  
> list.
> 
> agglomerator is a short and kludgy php script that searches for svg  
> documents in a folder.
> it checks if they validate and where necessary converts the filename  
> into a title with id and then saves each document found as a symbol in  
> a single SVG or svgz file.
> 
> this means less http requests, and personal icon vocabularies are easy  
> to create, which helps and encourages  re-use. However it does rely on  
> SVG1.1 external reference for <use> which is supported by Opera, Amaya  
> and Batik, but not Mozilla or Safari to date.
> 
> the agglomerator is currently being developed in offline mode, and  
> still requires some hand editing of files.
> it was successfully trialed in the wild on a few folders including the  
> openclipart 'roadsigns' folder:
> http://peepo.getmyip.com/~JonathanChetwynd/icon-ark/roadsigns.svg
> a UK Crown copyright set:
> http://www.iconomy.org/icon-ark/edemocracy.svg
> and some others which can be found at http://www.iconomy.org
> 
> It's use might also encourage authoring tool developers to help  
> authors re-use content like this:
> http://peepo.getmyip.com/~JonathanChetwynd/icon-ark/weather-icons.svgz
> around 18 symbols that are easily understood or learnt in under 4k  
> which includes titles and some metadata.
> 
> regards
> 
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