On 22 August 2013 13:33, Ulf Rehmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > | What I am missing in Shotwell is an Album, which sits at higher level > | and can be used to gather photos from multiple Dates or Events, > | according to personal preferences. > > You can use 'tags' for that. I have zillions of such (in a collection of > about 17.000 photos. They can have any (even multiple word) name like > '1989 holidays at Denver' or such, and they can even be cascaded and > grouped together.
I use tags a lot. However, speaking of semantic and metadata, hierarchical tags is a complete misunderstanding. That is because, "often many hierarchies can be created for any given set of data" [1] Wikipedia says: a tag is a non-hierarchical. It means, tags != taxonomy. I speak of albums as a tool to apply some sort of structured taxonomy to photos. IMHO, the problem is that tags, in many applications, have become some sort of universal tool to handle anything, to build a messy UX :) [1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~heymann/taghierarchy.html Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net "Participation in this whole process is a form of torture" ~~ Szalony _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
