Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Hopwood
- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee Sent: 20 November 2012 19:55 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images I am in the process of examining how photo collections maintained by campus units can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images

2012-11-21 Thread Michele R Combs
/petreaus-sex-scandal-tv-station-gets-caught-out-by-google-image-search Michele -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe Hourcle Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:10 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images

2012-11-21 Thread Michele R Combs
for Libraries' Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images Good piece in yesterday's New York Times on this very topic, about a project at Princeton University: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/science/for-web-images-creating-new-technology-to-seek-and-find.html Of course, you have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images

2012-11-20 Thread Kari R Smith
Banerjee Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images I am in the process of examining how photo collections maintained by campus units can be incorporated into the library's repository. In all cases that I've had

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images

2012-11-20 Thread Kyle Banerjee
It seems that the thematic folders and the file names may be ok descriptive tag sources to start with. Perhaps you could try to identify patterns to extract information for tags (i.e., hall, committee, holiday, etc.) You could traverse the file system, and use the Google Data API for Picasa,