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

[Jonathan Chetwynd]

Jon,

not to get too boorish, but please could the files be checked for  
title content on upload?
and a dialogue asking the sender to add title data where needed?

cheers

~:"

On 31 Mar 2008, at 08:08, Jon Phillips wrote:

>     A.
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> 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
>>
>>>
>>
>> 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
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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