2011/4/15 Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com>: > 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
I dunno what kind of return you consider on the investment, but I do know I'm required to tag images according to a predefined set of keywords when I upload to my stock agency. Applying those keywords certainly improves my chances of getting a sale. Further, if I could adhere to their standard of tagging in my local installation of LR, I would only have to do the keywording once, and locally. With the potential of reuse in other agencies for images that go royalty-free. :-) As a former delegate to one of those committees who dealt with standardisations on international levels, I know how exceptionally good they are at painting themselves into corners. But standards are for bureaucrats. What precedes them is usually a need arosen from a concrete business case. The IPTC framework is one example, I think. And libraries do make good use of classification systems I believe... :-) Jostein 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.
