On 30 August 2012 09:57, Kevin Grignon <kevingrignon...@gmail.com> wrote: > KG01 - see comments inline. > > On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm organising the Open clipart library into categories. We could use >> this then as a useful resource to complement AOO. > > KG01 - This adds a lot of value. Ideally we could aim to align the > information architecture for the categorization. This would allow users to > leverage the existing knowledge when browse in each library. > >> Any thoughts about >> the best way to implement making the categorised library available to >> the community? > > KG01 - it would be great to explore ways to make the open clip art more > accessible/discoverable within AoO clipart view. Some social integration > could enable pulling clipart into editors, or pushing an image from an editor > to the open library. > > While we could create a plug-in, it would be a better unified ux if we > integrate open clip art and local clipart in one UI.
At present I'm just going through all the folders from OpenClipart.org and putting them into arbitrary folders labelled Animals, People, Transport, Food etc. This is because each contributor simply puts often unconnected files in a folder so images on OpenClipart.org are grouped by author not type (unless I'm missiong something :-) ). While there are some aggregations and an on-line indexing system on the OpenClipart.org site I haven't found it particularly easy to find things. It seems easier to me to have a folder called eg Animals with sub folders for birds, insects, mammals, perhaps with subdivisions of cartoon and realistic in each. There are png and svg versions of each image. Ideally we'll get import of svg to AOO so that these can be edited or resaved in odg or odg will develop to be fully svg compliant but I guess that is further down the development road. Once we have the categories established they could be embedded in the AOO gallery system and anyone wanting to could add to the library to complement missing items. Probably helpful for the OpenClipArt project too. There really are masses of images to sort through but a lot of duplicates - millions of pencils and pens :-) This is why a visual search of a folder called pens is probably going to be more successful than trying to search for key words. So at the moment I propose to plough on sorting the images and hopefully when they are done someone (perhaps you kevin :-) ) Who knows more about how the UX can work with the imagescan help make it easy to integrate into the gallery. >> >> -- >> Ian >> >> Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) >> >> www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 >> >> The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, >> Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and >> Wales. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
