Be afraid. Be very afraid. I spent some years of my life in the publishing-technology business, with particular attention to high-end publishing like dictionaries and encyclopedias and legislation and aircraft tech manuals. At some point in the life of every such effort, someone decides they need a controlled vocabulary, some say "taxonomy", some with pretensions say "ontology". What's bad is if they assign the job to someone. What's worse is if they assign it to a committee. What's worst of all is when they get together some other publishers and form an industry standards group.
Remember when Yahoo was at the center of everything with their hierarchical index of web sites? That was a controlled vocabulary. Only Google swept them away without any such thing by applying a single metric: "People think this is good." I'm not saying a controlled vocabulary is bad, and yep, I keyword my Lightroom inventory so I can find pix of my kids or taken in Tokyo or whatever. But they're hard to create, harder to maintain, and the return on investment is generally modest. -Tim On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:21 AM, AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gang, > Once again I have been infused by a mischievous spirit inspiring me to > index my images with keywords. I use a controlled vocabulary built and > maintained by Norwegian nature photographer Ole Jørgen Liodden, and it > works pretty well for my shots too. But all such systems have their > flaws, and I would like to learn from other's experience with > controlled vocabularies. Self-made or bought. How do you maintain > them? > > Jostein > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
