[Clipart] RE: Cchost site upload question

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:03 -0400, Roan Horning wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, I did get fd.o access and have figured out all the problems I was
> having logging on.  I have been working on code to write metadata back
> to the svg file. (My coding this summer has crawled along)

Awesome...very cool! Please hop in the chat channel and lets tag team
this code...I want to get the site up this week badly. I feel like the
momentum is going low again...me and you are the primary hackers at this
point, so however we can push through to get more involved, I want to
do...no pressure though as well, and also, I wanted to say that you are
doing a great job with everything. You have really busted this whole
thing open for progress!

> Currently the only svg metadata recognized by getid3 is the Creative
> Commons data. I wasn't sure how much to return, and decided the CC stuff
> was most important to get working first.  It should be relatively easy
> to parse and return any/all metadata.  How much do we want? Do we want
> only the metadata associated with the svg tag (<svg><metadata>) or do we
> want to return any metadata associated to any tag within the file?

Yes, we idealy want to read any metadata in the document, but for now,
lets just get on par with the current ocal/inkscape setup which is to
read the svg > metadata child element that is for the entire document.
Yes, it would be great to read and write to this element.

You rule supremely!

Jon

> Thanks,
> 
> Roan
> 
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 08:33 +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> >> Gerald Ganson wrote:
> >>> I was just doing some tests on the new cchost site by uploading some of
> >>> a new collection I am working on.
> >>>
> >>> Anyways I carefully placed metadata into all my files, and everything,
> >>> but they only get the default tags in cchost.
> >>> Is the "Edit Properties" page content separate from the file metadata ?
> >>> Does editing this page for a given upload change the metadata within the
> >>> file ?
> >> This does not work yet, is on the to-do list and I believe a blocker for 
> >> the final migration to ccHost.
> > 
> > Yes, we would love to have help with this. Roan was working on this, but
> > I don't know where he is with the code. Roan, do you have fd.o access?
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> 
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