[Clipart] [Fwd: Re: clipart Digest, Vol 48, Issue 14]

[Jon Phillips]

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> From: John Olsen <johnny_automatic at mac.com>
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 48, Issue 14
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:16:39 -0700
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> >
> 
> I'm pretty sure that ccHost never wrote the tags back to the files.   
> The tarballed archives all have them but no files on the current  
> site.  The license data is also not public domain but proprietary on  
> any file I have checked.  But I'm not sure if that's ccHost.  So I  
> imagine ccHost isn't changing that either.  I know that isn't an  
> inkscape issue because I am usually doing my stuff in Illustrator.  As  
> a rule the metadata is empty on most files.
> 
> John

It doesn't at present...regardless, people when they upload their files
say they are releasing them into the public domain, and many agree that
this type of data about a work is copyright free anyway...

Roan was working on adding writing of metadata to SVG files previously,
but I lost track of the efforts.

Jon

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> > Message: 10
> > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:42:14 +0200
> > From: Tobias Jakobs <tobias.jakobs at googlemail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] svgSearch and tag metadata
> > To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>
> > Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Message-ID: <1206877334.7349.8.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
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> > Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 10:26 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Chetwynd:
> >> Tobias,
> >>
> >> could you point to the svg files with tag metadata?
> >> ideally all in a single zip file?
> >>
> >
> > I don't know if we have something like this.
> >
> >> the tag metadata is not in the svg files I found:
> >> for example: http://openclipart.org/media/tags/abstract
> >> first example: http://openclipart.org/people/cibo00/cibo00_Running_Legs.svg
> >> tags are given as: 	media, clip_art, art, abstract, sculpture, legs,
> >> sport
> >> these terms are not in the metadata.
> >
> > If they are not then it is a bug. Jon doesn't ccHost writes new tags
> > back into the file? If it doesn't it should changed as soon as  
> > possible.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tobias
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