[Clipart] RE: Release 13 and duplicates.

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:43 -0600, Gerald Ganson wrote:
> Could it use TITLE ?
> 
> As a submitter, I'd be happy to keep unique titles for all of my
> submissions.
> Maybe a title search tool would help us keep from using someone elses as
> well.

Really, I think the energy would best be spent pushing on DMS:

http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DocumentManagementSystem

As these problems will be solved when we switch to DMS. However, if your
write a tool to find if a title is unique, that is good as well to add
to the upload script.

Jon

> That said I'd have to look at my titles to ensure they conform. 
> 
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> Subject: Re: [Clipart] RE: Release 13 and duplicates.
> 
> Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca> writes:
> 
> > I will make attempts to at least keep all the filenames exactly the 
> > same within the zip in the future. All lowercase seems prefered ?
> 
> The key thing is to be consistent, but if I had to choose, I'd say
> lowercase is preferred, because most of the filenames already in the
> collection are that way.
> 
> This still leaves the issue of how to best detect and deal with
> duplicates in the general case.  The current system more-or-less
> considers two files to be identical if their filenames are identical,
> which is obviously a wee bit suboptimal and does not deal with versions
> as well as may be.
> 
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