[Clipart] Openclipart - striptease girl

[jon at rejon.org]

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On Jul 22, 2010 5:37 PM, "Leonardo Cunha" <laobcunha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I am. I will be improving some problematic tags.
>
> Best regards,
> Leonardo Cunha
>
>
>
> 2010/7/22 jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org>
>
>> Yes, totally! Leonardo, you are a librarian, right? Nathan, how is
>> your librarian status? We need your help :)
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Leonardo Cunha <laobcunha at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I agree with Nathan. As I have already said, lots of people don't tag
>> appropriately, so searching and filtering becomes a problem. That is a
kind
>> of work that grows exponentially. There is a need of more librarians or a
>> category of users allowed to change tags and descriptions.
>> > I search for "car" and there is only 1 car in the first 23 results...
:(
>> > Best regards,
>> > Leonardo Cunha
>> >
>> > 2010/7/21 Nathan Eady <eady at galion.lib.oh.us>
>> >>
>> >> chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > I'm aware of the clipart, I don't necessarily agree with the
>> >> > decision to hide them. Was it due to the title and wording only or
>> >> > the fact that they can be undressed? What's the way forward with
>> >> > these types of cliparts? Where's the line? Is it if the title or
>> >> > tags says such things, or is it any clipart that can be "undressed"
>> >> > irrespective of words?
>> >>
>> >> I think they need to have whatever keywords are necessary to inform
>> >> people who are deliberately filtering out images that contain nudity
>> >> in a sexual context (or computer programs that are attempting to do so
>> >> automatically) that these images match that criterion and should be
>> >> filtered out. Elementary schools, for instance, might want to provide
>> >> a clipart collection to their students, and such images would most
>> >> likely be unwelcome in such a collection. So it needs to be
>> >> relatively easy to filter them out.
>> >>
>> >> In general, I think we could stand to do a lot more editing work on
>> >> the keywords, to make the collection more searchable, more sortable,
>> >> and more filterable. Anything that obviously depicts alcohol or
>> >> tobacco should have an appropriate keyword for that, for example, and
>> >> currently some of them don't. Many images are hard to find because
>> >> they lack the words people would use to try to find them. Other
>> >> keywords appear on virtually every image for no apparent reason, so
>> >> that it's unnecessarily difficult to find the images that are actually
>> >> relevant. (Try, for instance, to search for an image of a book, and
>> >> you'll see what I mean about irrelevant results.)
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Nathan Eady
>> >> Galion Public Library
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