On 12/08/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
A typical image in getty's web collection will have something between 20 and 40 'keywords' assigned to them. We have an average of 2.9 (including all the license cats).
To an extent you could get around that by looking at the wikipedia articles images appear in.
Useful for the images which *do* appear in articles, but we have a lot of surplus.
Say I go off one day, with my camera, and I take a set of photos of something. I upload a dozen from different angles, close-ups and wide shots, a nice variety of photos. All are tagged in the same way with much the same description. And then I put one in the Wikipedia article - it would be silly to include all these others, they'd just be repetitive clutter.
The search should really return them all, not just the one I happened to pick as most suitable for an encyclopedia.