[Clipart] cchost and svg status update

[Jon Phillips]

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Heya, I added your patch to ccHost to allow for SVG in getid3. I had to
add some checking of getid3.php to make sure svg is allowed...

More in a bit...

Jon


On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 07:04 -0400, Roan Horning wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> >
> > Did you get your access to freedesktop.org sorted out? It would be great
> > to apply your changes to our working test site so we can start moving
> > uploads to that site...
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> I figured out how to work with cvs.freedesktop.org, but I've only worked
> with the experimental module to update getid3.  Are you using
> cvs.clipart.org to keep track of changes to the main site? I browsed
> through the cvs clipart structure using the web interface, but wasn't
> sure exactly what was what. I'm happy to update the cchost stuff on
> openclipart.org just not sure how yet.
> 
> >
> > I think the next most important step is to get our current collection
> > into ccHost. This would be best brought up on the cchost list (and cc'd
> > on this list). There are several ways to deal with this, including
> > develop basic import of content from an RSS or ATOM feed (since we
> > already have basic dumping capability, Victor and I discussed adding
> > import of RSS or ATOM for ccHost.
> >
> I've been thinking about how to get the current collection into cchost.
> I suggest we use cchost's normal way of putting things in the people's
> folder. So we create default usernames from an artists full name:
> Jack Smith -> Jack.Smith or Smith-Jack or jsmith etc. and enter whatever
> other contact information we have for them--particularly e-mail
> addresses, and generate a default password. Once we are ready we can
> send an individual welcome to the updated ocal email out to all our
> previous contributors, with their new username and password.  We'll have
> to figure out what the policy is for accounts with no email addresses.
> 
> For each piece of artwork, we assign tags based on its current keywords,
> plus keywords based on the path it currently resides.  For example,
> artwork in the  home / food / meats_and_eggs section
> (http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/navigate/food/meats_and_eggs) would
> get the tags 'food' and 'meats_and_eggs' along with the other tags
> derived from the artwork's current keywords. The advantage to these
> "path" tags is we can use them to recreate the current directory
> structure when generating future openclipart releases (i.e. create
> directory structure /food/meats_and_eggs, search for tags
> food+meats_and_eggs, copy search results to directory), plus I think it
> is important to have a way to categorize and browse the collection from
> within an hierarchical structure--it complements searching.
> 
> During the transition, we should make sure the Creative Commons rdf is
> updated for each artwork, in particular the Public Domain Dedication.
> I'm assuming that while not all of the artwork on the site currently
> says it is in the Public Domain when viewing a web page, that all are.
> 
> >
> > Brilliant work Roan!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Roan
> 
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