[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 20

[Greg Bulmash]

What about social tagging similar to the system Google has?

I know this would be a big programming project if it's set up with
people having to simultaneously tag images.

But if you set it up for asynchronous operation (i.e. people just work
individually and a periodic batch process runs a comparison operation
to pull out good keywords), the programming gets a lot simpler.

Step 1: Select an image based on a set of criteria (fewest tags,
longest time since last tag added, etc.)

Step 2: Present image to user along with a text box and a 1 minute
javascript timer.  They put in keywords for the image, one per line,
in the text box.

Step 3: Javascript timer reaches zero and submits form.  Form
basically stores userID, timestamp, image ID, and tags/labels in a
database.

Step 4: Periodic batch runs count occurrence of submitted keywords, if
a particular item has a keyword submitted for it by X different
people, that gets added to its official keywords.

To encourage participation, do a point scheme...
 1 point per submitted keyword
 3 points per accepted keyword

Weekly leaderboards acknowledge users who had the most keywords
submitted, and the most accepted that week and all time.


- Greg



On 9/20/07, John Olsen <johnny_automatic at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:14:48 +0200
> > From: Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert at web.de>
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] what is clipart?
> > To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Message-ID: <1190196888.7500.38.camel at FredDesk>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> >
> > Am Montag, den 17.09.2007, 11:29 -0700 schrieb Jon Phillips:
> >> This is  great idea Frederik...maybe you can recommend some style
> >> tags
> >> to use...and lead the pack...there could be season tags, collections,
> >> etc...too...good simple and easy to do :)
> >
> > I think it would be a bit odd for me to define styles that artists
> > should stick to. The best way IMO would be, if artists that already do
> > stick to a somewhat coherent style for several pieces would take a
> > minute and define this style, so others can work with it.
> >
>
>
> Herding cats if you ask me.  As someone who has been almost daily
> fixing uploads to conform to our current loose guidelines,  let me
> say it is not terribly realistic to expect people to adhere to this.
> I for one cannot possible go through the 800 plus files I have
> uploaded and add more tags.  As a visual person, I also think the
> whole style thing is handled better in another way.  That is:
> searches display a gallery view of the art.  Then you can see at a
> glance if it is in the style you want.  This seems absolutely
> fundamental and I really know of no other site offering graphics that
> DOESN'T work this way - morguefile, LOC, yotophoto, iStockphoto, etc.
> etc.
>
> If I was a programmer I'd jump into helping in this area, but I'm
> just a graphic artist with no code abilities.
>
> John Olsen
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