Suggestions group posting on GLOBOsapiens

Taxonomy and classification ... the serious business

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morc66 Premium account Joined: Jun 02 Points: 2383 Posts: 75 Posted: 2006-02-21 12:28:00    Andreas, I know it has been subject to discussion before but I would like to suggest classifications to photos... That way it would be possible to differentiate between photo classes; For instance you would have a class structure like this : (I know this classification is bad, incorrect and lacks any taxonomy) Pictures Persons --celeb --portrait .. Locations --City ----(all locations coupled in this class) --Landscape --City --Nature --geograph. location (coords) Animals --Groups --Birds --Fish --Reptiles --Invertebrate --.. Underwater (my specialty…) --Diving --Aquarium On classification you would select any appropriate class. That way you would have a picture and describe its contents in a uniform way. This classification, if set-up the right way, makes for great extra value. For most subjects there would be ready to use classification available… (animals for instance are standard classified) In your pictures you would be able to classify a picture and make it possible to search or browse specific pictures, group and filter pictures, and lots more new functionality For instance: http://www.globosapiens.net/morc66/picture-whip-coral...-goby-26299.html would be classified as Diving, Fish (and subclasses), Nature.. Now, if a user is interested in Diving … he just browses to the class diving and sees al the pictures that have that classification. (including pictures with my fish, but also persons (divers on pics)) If you would like to see only fish you just select class fish. e voila you end up with all fish in the database... I would like to discuss this in this a bit further in the topic... If you (Andreas and other developers) are interested. Off course the examples I've just given are no good to you but since you are the developers you would know object oriented design pretty good. If you like I can present you with more technical solutions on how to do it... Also I would like to know opinion of Globo users: would classification of pics be fun? (eg, being able to browse on subjects/classes) Cheers, Maurice (edited... class structure flattened by application and edited some extra clarification) [ This Message was edited by: morc66 on 2006-02-21 19:55 ] --- See more photo's: www.flickr.com/photo-s/27408834@N05/ See the current Diveblog: mauricedeboer.blogspot.com Reply    Reply with quote    Contact morc66   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2006-02-21 15:24:00    I think this would probably be an improvement, particularly for visitors to the site but 1. I suspect it might be a big job and I don't think I should give it huge priority. 2. It would need some instruction on uploading - irksome to those familiar with it and a pain if those not familiar don't bother to read it. I have just had a play to see what can be done now. Clicking on 'pictures' then putting either 'diving' or 'shell' in the browse box had a pretty good though by no means perfect effect. [e.g. 'shell' brought up the shell of a church alongside pictures of diving.] In short, if it's easy and reasonably foolproof, yes; if, as I suspect, not, then I should accept whatever priority Andy gives it. Cheers, David --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   morc66 Premium account Joined: Jun 02 Points: 2383 Posts: 75 Posted: 2006-03-06 14:54:00    I see it is not the most popular topic... That is too bad. I think this classification system would enhance Globo very much. I hope to see some of you respond, please... I know it is just a hypothetical discussion, since Andreas has to be able (and have the time) to build such a system... but wouldn't it be great to browse Globo on specific topics (like wildlife in switserland or sponges in aegean sea, or landscapes, sunsets, animals, australia for instance...) Cheers, Maurice --- See more photo's: www.flickr.com/photo-s/27408834@N05/ See the current Diveblog: mauricedeboer.blogspot.com Reply    Reply with quote    Contact morc66   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2006-03-07 11:43:00    I think the idea is brilliant, that is why I do the "THEMEs" in the forum. Extreamly few, under 10 members support that though, I dont know how much longer I will bother continuing doing that! Categorization by the member him/her self when uploading would benefit all. It's implemention (programming) is very difficult but beneficial in the long run. We now have 26000 pictures sorted geographically but when they are 100000 or more, how does one find a specific picture. I cannt find certain of my own pictures sometimes, categories would help! On the other hand, upload proceedures should be kept simple. Members, specially non-english speakers, are already having technical and time problems in placing a picture correctly geographically or at all. I wish members would title and describe there pictures properly, then atleast they could be found eventually by an internal search engine, a better solution I think. Also, who goes back to all already archived pictures to categorize them? We are principaly a "travel community", not a photography, scubadiving, birdwatching or other club but I see the point of categories/themes because we all travel with certain interests/hobbies in mind..... Rudi [ This Message was edited by: rangutan on 2006-03-07 11:45 ] --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   morc66 Premium account Joined: Jun 02 Points: 2383 Posts: 75 Posted: 2006-04-24 12:09:00    Rangutan, Your themes is a GREAT idea... but it does not work unless it is part of the site... I really would like to have a statement from our developers on what they think is feasable. Cheers, Maurice [ This Message was edited by: morc66 on 2006-04-24 12:16 ] --- See more photo's: www.flickr.com/photo-s/27408834@N05/ See the current Diveblog: mauricedeboer.blogspot.com Reply    Reply with quote    Contact morc66