[Clipart] clipart to cchost

Nicu Buculei (OCAL) nicu at apsro.com
Thu Jan 4 05:54:31 PST 2007


momo wrote:
>> I think is a killer to visually try to identify and clean duplicates 
>> for thousands of images, it should be done in a scripted way: compare 
>> the file sizes and maybe names (names are not reliable) and do a 
>> visual comparison only for the files with matching file sizes and/or 
>> names.
> 
> Yes you're right, but this is actually a task that can be done locally 
> with the help of a duplicate finder (I use a freeware program called 
> DupKiller for these tasks).

Certainly.

> But still, for the task of importing 0.18 collection, I'm still thinking 
> that it is much more simple to have the cleaning/enhancing job done 
> locally by several people. After the duplicate search is done, each 

Doing it locally the task can be accomplished in under 1 hour (my 
estimate, based on cleaning duplicates on *very old* releases), doing it 
on the website cold take days.

> volunteer takes a part of the clipart to clean. Once every part of the 
> clipart is cleaned, they are uplopaded to CCHOST for people to use and 
> enjoy.

Cleaning could be done *after* upload if it means correcting keywords, 
titles, description and bounding box.

-- 
nicu
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