[Clipart] Openclipart - striptease girl
Leonardo Cunha
laobcunha at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 13:29:58 PDT 2010
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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