[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 16

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:50 -0700, John Olsen wrote:
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:01:58 +0200
> > From: Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert at web.de>
> >
> > So I thought about setting up some style guides that could make up  
> > a set
> > of quite coherent collections. The first step would be to define a set
> > of styles. Something as the Tango style guidelines would be nice, but
> > for a variety of clipart styles, e.g.,
> >       * Photo-realistic with gradients, blur, smooth colors
> >       * old-fashioned clipart style, with wide black borders and no
> >         gradients
> >       * Black-and-white traces (we have a lot of that)
> >       * etc.
> >
> > Then tags for these styles could be added to clipart following the
> > guidelines. It would be no necessity to stick to these styles, anyone
> > could upload his/her individual clipart as before. But if somebody  
> > wants
> > to contribute to a style collection, he/she could stick to the
> > guidelines. For beginners it might even be easier to have a  
> > guideline to
> > stick to then to start all by themselves.
> >
> > If the packaging/download/etc stuff will be back in the future, one
> > could easily package clipart for the styles and then provide coherent
> > collections.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Frederik
> >>
> 
> 
> Seems very simple.  The current tag system will handle it  
> immediately.  Just need to start tagging things with them.  All it  
> takes is someone volunteering to do it and setting the example.   I  
> would say that the the black and white traces are also several styles  
> - technical drawing, etching or engraving, woodcut.  Just depends on  
> how fine you want to get.  There is plenty of work to do.  I think a  
> lot of the cllipart needs enhanced tags, it just takes time.  At this  
> time I spend most of my energies here adding new files and fixing up  
> ones that need cleanup.
> 
> John Olsen/Johnny Automatic

We could create a page called themes or styles for the site, and then
just explain each style/collection/theme:


http://openclipart.org/media/tags/SOME_STYLE_HERE


What do you think?

Jon

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