Hi,
I posted a message about this to the Village Pump but got no replies, so either I'm making no sense or everybody agrees with me (perhaps not!).
My proposal was to prompt for specific information on the file upload form for photos, such as Location, Country, Date and some technical information. All of this information could then be embedded into the file page, and displayed with the photo. I think this would help in categorising the photos, gives some information to users in all languages, and at some future point could allow for searching by country/date/photographer etc. Given the amount of meta-data digital cameras now save automatically with each photograph it seems daft not to use it.
I did a quick mock-up of what I mean at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wombat/Upload although the forms are not interpreted.
please respond!,
Richard.
Seems like a good idea to me. I'm not sure the shutter speed / camera model are really relevant, but location/country/date absolutely are (imho).
Fruggo
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:48:51 +1100, Richard Palmer richard.palmer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I posted a message about this to the Village Pump but got no replies, so either I'm making no sense or everybody agrees with me (perhaps not!).
My proposal was to prompt for specific information on the file upload form for photos, such as Location, Country, Date and some technical information. All of this information could then be embedded into the file page, and displayed with the photo. I think this would help in categorising the photos, gives some information to users in all languages, and at some future point could allow for searching by country/date/photographer etc. Given the amount of meta-data digital cameras now save automatically with each photograph it seems daft not to use it.
I did a quick mock-up of what I mean at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wombat/Upload although the forms are not interpreted.
please respond!,
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On Jan 19, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Fruggo wrote:
I'm not sure the shutter speed / camera model are really relevant
This information can be interesting, though... instead of asking uploaders to add this information themselves, it would be nice if MediaWiki could extract EXIF data and display it automatically. I'm pretty sure most digital cameras support the embedding of EXIF info.
Most digital cameras, yes. I happen not to use one ;-), yeah, old-fashioned and all. Well I do believe that a field to be filled on upload would make things much much easier for everybody.
Ask for a licence is another important field, or warn that unless provided, the licence will be GFDL or something.
Cheers,
Delphine
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:00:37 -0500, Benjamin Esham bdesham@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 19, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Fruggo wrote:
I'm not sure the shutter speed / camera model are really relevant
This information can be interesting, though... instead of asking uploaders to add this information themselves, it would be nice if MediaWiki could extract EXIF data and display it automatically. I'm pretty sure most digital cameras support the embedding of EXIF info.
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Hi,
I forgot about the license field, added that to example. With digital cameras it should be easy to get the EXIF information from the file, with film it would just take a bit longer (and you would have to keep notes when you take the photo, something I always forget about!). The advantage of having shutter, iso speed etc is you could do some sneaky searching that way, for example high ISO speeds photos would find nighttime/sports photography, small aperture finds landscapes (perhaps). Having the model information would give some indication to the quality of the picture, and allow for comparisions.
So, any admin reading, is it possible to implement this?. I'd make the changes if need be, to start with all that is needed is to alter the upload form, and the script that reads the uploaded data to dump it into the generated file page, should be fairly easy...? (Later would come EXIF parsing, displaying data on file page, supplying defaults set in user preferences, searching on fields, etc.)
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:18:28 +0100, notafish notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
Most digital cameras, yes. I happen not to use one ;-), yeah, old-fashioned and all. Well I do believe that a field to be filled on upload would make things much much easier for everybody.
Ask for a licence is another important field, or warn that unless provided, the licence will be GFDL or something.
Cheers,
Delphine
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:00:37 -0500, Benjamin Esham bdesham@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 19, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Fruggo wrote:
I'm not sure the shutter speed / camera model are really relevant
This information can be interesting, though... instead of asking uploaders to add this information themselves, it would be nice if MediaWiki could extract EXIF data and display it automatically. I'm pretty sure most digital cameras support the embedding of EXIF info.
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