Are you guys talking about FotoNotes or what? Because Flickr already does that. It sounds very like FotoNotes. http://www.fotonotes.net/
Probably MW could do it too (there's an API), if someone wrote an extension................................
:)
cheers Brianna
On 21/06/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/06/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On 6/21/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On a tangent, what do some of the Commons regulars think of the system Facebook has for tagging people in photos? That would seem to be an application that would be very useful for Commons.
Is there a description for non-facebook-users? Or do I have to become a member?
I independently came up with, and sort-of worked out how to build, a system like that one... and then someone said to me, as I was explaining my wonderful idea, "what, you mean like Facebook"? I hadn't used it, but they helpfully showed me... I felt a little silly :-)
Basically, you take a photo, you allow people to click somewhere on it and tag that point as being a named person. It can then use this to find all photos with a certain person in, or "name" the person (via mouseover?) when looking at the photo.
It has various elegant applications if you want to take it to the next level - the idea I was thinking of was for archival photograph databases, where you could select a little rectangle around the face and tag it. Later, you could ask the system "show me Joe Smith" and have it generate a set of all these headshots to help figure out whether or not he appeared in an unlabelled image...
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