We have a ticket to add Album support to Shotwell:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/81
It was closed a few years ago under the thinking that Events, Tags, and
Folder heirarchy were enough organizational schemes for users. (I
forgot that the ticket had been closed.) I'm reopening it as I think
an Album scheme would be more than useful to a lot of users, and that
the current schemes don't answer all the needs Albums would provide.
-- Jim
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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