On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 28 Oct 2010, at 20:38, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Op 28-10-2010 20:56, Gerard Meijssen schreef:
Hoi,
I am writing a series of blog posts about Commons. My aim is to identify
the issues that I have with how it
Hi guys,
So we're having the tags discussion again? Pops up every once in a
while. Tags is a step backwards compared to categories. With tags there
is a relation between an object (a photo) and a word. No way of telling
what the relation is, what language the tag is, no relations between
tags
On 29 October 2010 17:55, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote:
One could search for a tag, and another and another narrowing down
your search.
I can't imagine how many times I was looking for something simple and
being forced
to make a specific choise in order to see a picture.
Indeed.
Op 29 okt 2010, om 19:35 heeft David Gerard het volgende geschreven:
On 29 October 2010 17:55, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote:
One could search for a tag, and another and another narrowing down
your search.
I can't imagine how many times I was looking for something simple and
being
in ontological structure - they already have the category tree. It's
for the casual user to type in a few words they're thinking of. Think
something like Getty Images. Commons is sorta like Getty Images
except it's all free and the search sucks.
And why not work on metadata? If you have
Hoi,
When Chaim Potok wrote about crucifixions in My name is Asher Lev he wrote
that they are part of the art of a painter. You will find suffering, love,
beauty, devotion, belief all expressed in paintings. The western tradition
is one where the proverb a picture paints a thousand words is
Hoi,
At the Europeana conference in Amsterdam they informed us about a museum
where they had not only the terminology used by professionals, they also had
labels that were added by the public. Analysis of the positive searches
showed that 85% of the searches where because of labels only 15% was
2010/10/29 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi,
At the Europeana conference in Amsterdam they informed us about a museum
where they had not only the terminology used by professionals, they also had
labels that were added by the public. Analysis of the positive searches
showed that
Hi,
Op 28-10-2010 20:56, Gerard Meijssen schreef:
Hoi,
I am writing a series of blog posts about Commons. My aim is to
identify the issues that I have with how it functions. There are
several and I do not bother to write about the ones that are being
tackled by the team around Guillaume (as
