Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-28 Thread Boris Liberman
On 4/15/2011 16:21, AlunFoto 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 al

RE: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-17 Thread Bob W
> 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 >

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:18 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >>> And here I thought this was going to be a thread about speech police >> >> >> Samme herrre > > Hi, Dave.  When d

RE: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-16 Thread John Sessoms
From: AlunFoto 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 J?rgen Liodden, and it works pretty well for my shots too. But all such systems have

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread AlunFoto
2011/4/15 Tim Bray : > 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 ki

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread Stan Halpin
My impression: A home-grown taxonomy/vocabulary is like an old pony: it won't be very fast, it won't get you very far, but it is comfortable and is usually good enough if you understand its limitations. A professionally-created taxonomy/vocabulary is like a thoroughbred race horse: a thing of be

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Bray
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

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread Scott Loveless
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:18 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> And here I thought this was going to be a thread about speech police > > > Samme herrre Hi, Dave. When did you become a 14 year old girl? -- Scott Loveless http://www.tw

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > And here I thought this was going to be a thread about speech police Samme herrre Dave > > ann > > AlunFoto wrote: > >> Gang, >> Once again I have been infused by a mischievous spirit inspiring me to >> index my images with keywor

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread Ann Sanfedele
And here I thought this was going to be a thread about speech police ann AlunFoto 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 Jørge

Re: Controlled vocabularies, anyone?

2011-04-15 Thread Paul Stenquist
Hi Jostein, I index all folders by date and subject and add a prefix that indicates whether it's been backed up or not. For example: b8-7-10 red 64 dodge 330. Many of my images are filed by the camera sequence number, which I can trace to a date. But the more critical shots are filed by a keywo