[Clipart] question about releases

[Brian Bucknam]

Hi OCAL folks,

Smile Software's DiscLabel product made use of the "in-the-SVG-file" metadata tags.  We wrote a Spotlight search extension for SVG files, where "Spotlight" is Mac OS X's built-in file searching tool.

This made it possible to download the "current at the time" OCAL release tar balls, then search from within DiscLabel, or just from Mac OS X's Spotlight menu bar search, and find SVG's based on the tag metadata.

So, in other words, it can be very useful to have the tags inside the SVG files when the files are on your hard drive, assuming you have some search mechanism that can extract the info.

Just FYI,
Brian
Smile Software
http://smilesoftware.com/

On Mar 24, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Jon Phillips <jon at fabricatorz.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure there was never metadata editing, but because of features Kees Cook and myself from Inkscape added to Inkscape, there is a metadata panel with the ability to add metadata to the SVG generated in Inkscape. 
> 
> How many people still use this, or just draw and upload?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Wolfgang Spraul <wolfgang at fabricatorz.com> wrote:
> > I had a quick look at a random sample, and found a couple with more
> > information in the file, but I estimate less than one in 10:
> 
> It is possible that some very old graphics have 'real' metadata
> because I was told in the first years of ocal the metadata was
> updated in the .svg files, a feature which was lost in
> subsequent server updates.
> 
> But in those cases I would think the tags in the database must
> be as good or better as those in the .svg files, since the ones
> in the .svg files have not been updated for a number of years.
> 
> That is my current understanding, thanks a lot for helping to
> look into this!
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