[Clipart] Some motivation for making openclipart package releases.

[Richard Brett]

Hi

   I sit with a similar problem to shirish.  I rarely use OCAL to find 
clipart, as we use the clip art on inhouse hosted servers that have no 
real access to the internet.  We therefore take the package and reformat 
it to be useful.  This works but isnt optimum, as very manual and we 
lose keywords.  I would love to use the API to solve my problem, but the 
API seems to be query based, not "give me all cliparts" or "what is the 
status of clipart #5757575" - I keep looking at the online API docs, but 
I cannot see how to do it.  I havent pushed it or asked much (couple of 
times in IRC), as I also have other priorities.  (what I need most is 
the ability to query metadata, pulling images is easy)

While shirish is really wanting packages, I'm really preferring a highly 
functional API - but both of us are talking about using OCAL as a master 
repository with personal copies.

Just FYI, not a compliant !
.Richard
PS I would also love the request system to work, I'd be happy to place 
requests for cliparts with donation on completion.



Jon Phillips wrote:
> Sure, well, all this takes time and money now to get it developed.
> Without time or money, things get done on the project, but in an
> indeterminate amount of time. So, I love the ideas (keep em coming),
> and please file them at http://launchpad.net/openclipart
>
> Donations help as well!
>
> Jon
>
> 2012/3/16 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>:
>   
>> in-line :-
>>
>> 2012/3/16 Jon Phillips <jon at fabricatorz.com>:
>>     
>>> Thanks for your post! What about making smaller packaged releases?
>>>       
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>>     
>>> The idea wasn't to abandon packages, but allow for people to "collect"
>>> clipart, and then autogenerate packages.
>>>
>>> The size of a package of all clipart was crushing our server resources.
>>>       
>> From what I see now you have access to the Oregaon State University
>> Open Source Lab.
>>
>> The other way which you are saying can be done as well, it will
>> require quite a bit of effort on the distributor's side (I'm talking
>> about GNU/Linux distributors). While individuals may not have an issue
>> as they could make a 'collection' and be happy with that, for
>> distributors they might find it a bit difficult.
>>
>> As far as hosting or/and mirroring is concerned guess you could give a
>> shout on the site and possibly you might get free or/and cheap hosting
>> from people. I do see people talking about free space where they host
>> their own stuff all the time. How reliable those hosting solutions are
>> I never asked because I have never needed/wanted it.
>>
>> I have seen the 'collections' page but figuring it out will be hard as
>> more content gets added to the 'collection' . For instance you have a
>> 'clothes visualization' collection atm
>> http://openclipart.org/collection/collection-detail/piskot85/6218 ,
>> now if somebody gets motivated and makes couple of more or little more
>> than, would they be part of this collection or a new collection ?
>>
>> If you want to go the collections way only, then would recommend have
>> some kind of VCS so people can know what/which images were added to
>> which collection ? Otherwise people would either not get some images
>> from collection or possibly have duplicate images which would then
>> need to go via a deduplication stage to make sure  all the images are
>> unique before they are added to the archive.
>>
>> In short, any way I see it, it would add a bit more complexity to the
>> way things run now.
>>
>> At the end, its your baby so please do as you feel fit. Also there are
>> certain assumptions and presumptions I have made, maybe you know some
>> better way.
>>
>> Either way it would be nice to hear whichever way you decide to go ahead.
>>
>> Happy hacking.
>>
>>     
>>> Jon
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>>           Regards,
>>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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