[Clipart] what is clipart?

[Jon Phillips]

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:37 +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.09.2007, 15:39 -0700 schrieb Jon Phillips:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:14 +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > But the first step would be to set up a place for styles and some
> > > guidelines for styling. Maybe a wiki page would be a good start? 
> > 
> > Yes, please do this...need to think about a bit...There might also be a
> > feature in this in the idea of collections, but honestly, the tag
> > approach does this, so best to go with easiest path...
> 
> Here is the wiki page:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/wiki/Style_Guidelines
> 
> It could be linked in the "Clip Art Information" box on the main page
> once it is in a usable state.

Cool.

> Please note that I did not already actually tag the images, since I
> first wanted to hear your thoughts on this. Is the "stye_" prefix for
> tags a good idea? Should we use less descriptive and shorter names?

I think better to not use the style_ prefix, but maybe others have
thoughts about this...better to be more generic with tags and filter by
multiple tags if necessary IMO.

> Feel free to edit the page and improve it!
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik

Cool!

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