[Clipart] tag you're it (fwd)

[Michael Moore]

> > > Example:
> > > After the game, I view my results and see that "circle" was one of the
> > > tags for the dartboard. I could flag it as wrong since it's not an
> > > obvious tag for a dartboard. If circle were flagged as wrong a certain
> > > number of times, it would be dropped from the tags list.
>
> With SVG it should be possible in theory to check for things like that,
> but in practice Inkscape uses paths for everything rather than circle,
> rect, polyline, polygon.  I drew some art using only polygons in an effort
> to make things look stylised which makes me think perhaps some researchers
> will mass process a copy of the collection and analyse the usages of
> shapes and styles, perhaps quantify the artist styles, who knows.

Here I was talking about wrong tags for cliparts. In this case, I was
considering "circle" as a tag, incorrect for a dartboard, since it's
too generic.

After the game, the user could be able to see all the tags for the
cliparts they played with. The user would manually flag tags they
thought were wrong for any given clipart.

eg. after the game, the player sees:

(( this is an image of a dartboard ))
tags for this image
Darts      [x this is incorrect]
V1AgrA      [x this is incorrect]
Dartboard      [x this is incorrect]
Game      [x this is incorrect]
Sport      [x this is incorrect]
Bulls eye      [x this is incorrect]
circle      [x this is incorrect]

The user didn't end up guessing that V1AgrA and circle were tags for
Dartboard, they could  press the [x this is incorrect] button next to
those tags to flag them as wrong.

In essence, tags get modded up by users guess them as keywords while
playing, and get modded down when they review the images after the
game.

I wasn't suggesting a programatic approach to verifying tags.


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