[Clipart] world maps
Jon Phillips
jon at rejon.org
Sun Feb 27 00:25:07 PST 2005
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab at bright.net> writes:
>
>
>>http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/keyword_search.cgi
>
>
> It is notable that this is only as good as the keyword index, which is
> built from the keywords in the metadata embedded in the images.
> Searching for "face" turns up Che Guevera only, even though we do, in
> fact, have a number of other faces. "phone" turns up none of our four
> telephone images. "dolphin" does not turn up a result, although we
> have one, and it comes up under "mammal". And so on.
>
> I think one of our medium-term goals should be to improve the keyword
> metadata to the point where they are much more useful for this kind of
> searching.
>
Add it to the wiki roadmap! And, I agree with you...
Jon
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