[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 25

[John Olsen]

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Nice start.  For usefulness and increased participation i would think  
that styles should appear as a set of clickable links in the upload  
page similar to POPULAR TAGS that is currently there.  Realize most  
people uploading files just pick a word or two without looking at the  
existing tags and in many cases the tags field is entirely empty.  So  
if this is going to be used then it needs to brain-dead easy for the  
submitter.  And obviously a lot of librarians will need to tag all  
the old files.

With our limited people resources, I guess it is really a matter of  
priorities.  Is it more important to move the 7000+ pieces of old  
clipart over and QC and update all of that?  Is it making a  
hierarchical folder system like the old site had (could the old site  
be the skeleton for that?  Is it really a good idea or just a way to  
have lots of misfiled images).  Or is it tagging the current stuff  
with style tags?

John


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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:37:31 +0200
> From: Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert at web.de>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] what is clipart?
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Message-ID: <1190543851.6463.5.camel at FredDesk>
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> 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:
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> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Feel free to edit the page and improve it!
>
> Cheers,
> Frederik
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