[Clipart] Is anyone working on categorizing the existing images?

[Jon Phillips]

Please, when you have an idea or whatnot, add your ideas and thoughts to
the WIKI for progression of concepts.

As I see it now, we have two very good discussions which are going to
need decisions soon:

1.) Keyword Handling
(http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Keyword_Organization)

2.) Localization
(http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Localization)

I did not take into account the ideas of how to localize our metadata,
but this is of much importance. I've had several people note their
interest in using our system for collections of other types of content,
so the more we think these things through, the better.

Jon


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:46, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:21:03 +0200
> > From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl at huftis.org>
> > To: clipart at freedesktop.org
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] Is anyone working on categorizing the existing
> >     images?
> >
> > "Áki G. Karlsson" <aki at akademia.is> wrote in
> > news:opr89988gcbnhb89 at localhost:
> >
> > > Can't we just have both?
> > >
> > > I mean, a limited number of strong categories,
> >
> > Or strong keywords. In other words, a *controlled* vocabulary of
> > keywords (containg e.g. 'France, food and flags'). Just using
> > free-form keywords will lead to lots of different keywords that
> > mean ~the same thing (cf. IMDb). A controlled vocabulary avoids
> > this. Trying to create only a fixed hierarchy, and shoe-horning
> > each image into one category is bound to fail.
> 
> (sidenote: A Controlled Vocabulary of special words sounds a bit like Wiki
> words to me.)
> 
> > In addition to the controlled vocabulary of keywords, we can have
> > a hierarchy structure based on these strong keywords.
> >
> > The point is: Images aren't placed in hierarchical categories,
> > they have keywords assigned to them. The hierarchy is a separate
> > thing.
> >
> > The hierarchy could look like this:
> >
> > Countries
> >   Flags
> >   Maps
> >   Individual countries
> >     France
> >     ...
> >
> > Food
> >   Fruit and vegetables
> >   Meat
> >   Drink
> >
> 
> 
> > But is this metadata stored in the SVG files localisable?
> 
> XMP meta data is localisable.  (tried to find a vaguely relevant link:)
> http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:r9Ln2BLRg6oJ:partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/xmp/pdf/MetadataFramework.pdf+adobe+xmp+lang&hl=en#26
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
> 
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