[sf-lug] Fwd: What do you people use to organize your photos both locally and on the web?

[jim]

    assume some way of working directly with images 
rather than with tags. what would be the difference 
between bill and dog? assume some distinctions. to 
use them, you're gonna have to learn them, a whole 
vocabulary that will distinguish between red balls 
and plaid blankets and will describe every kind of 
rock, pebble, leaf, scraps of paper and plastic.... 
    i'd rather use tags, but i like mid-twentieth 
century technology such as flat files, which are 
simple and take little storage. 



On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 18:02 -0800, Brian Morris wrote:
> [whoops forgot the list]
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] What do you people use to organize your photos
> both locally and on the web?
> To: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> 
> 
> Keywords created flat files which I don't like much, seems like a
> (mid) 20th century technology.
> 
> I have an "Asset Management" program in Mac that is ageing / ailing
> but really helps a lot, I do wish there was an open source replacement
> (the newer versions of this program I don't like expensive bloatware).
> 
> Even with the program I stilll use file/folder system, I like to
> experiment with organizational schemes, but I only use a few aliases
> here and there. I have found that most people are challenged to think
> clearly in two dimensions never mind three -- we mostly live in two
> dimensions unless we are pilots.
> 
> I would like to have some running software that assists me in
> classifying / reclassifying things. I have some toolkits but barely
> prototypes. I'd be interested in working with others on a hacking
> project maybe. My desire here at this point not to gui but to have
> graphical presentation of results and some command line features. This
> should be scriptable / hackable. Given a current representation of
> some kind, the program could perhaps present the user with some
> feedback or assist in further filing.
> 
> Certainly if I had some better tools my life in Linux would be
> expanded, I would want the tools to be cross platform though still and
> cloud solutions for me are out of the question.
> 
> What I would really like (dream) is software that could work directly
> with images rather than relying (exclusively) on textual tags. This is
> not impossible, but for practical purposes I think it requires some
> (General Purpose) GPU programming ie OpenCL, which is an emerging
> technology I hope to become involved with.
> 
> Long story short -- getting real tired of twentieth century (soft)
> technology.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> wrote:
>         Mikki McGee writes:
>         >    After looking at what was available, I decided to do it
>         all "my way."
>         > I collect art pictures from museums, and pictures of
>         specimens of a
>         > diverse group of living things; and so I upload into a
>         directory called
>         > /CAMERA, and sort and edit and same into, for example,
>         > /Art/Legion/Statuary.    Or
>         into /Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera,
>         >    or into /Pictures/Friends.
>         
>         
>         I tried that, but it got complicated and I gave up -- if I
>         have a
>         photo that has my friend Bill and his dog, do I put duplicate
>         copies
>         in Images/People/Bill and Images/Animals/Dogs? Put the pic in
>         one
>         place and symlink to the other place?
>         
>         I organize photos in directories by year, and within each year
>         I
>         just make descriptive names for upload directories, like
>         Images/2011/RSA-baby-quail if I went on a hike at Rancho San
>         Antonio where I saw a lot of baby quail.
>         
>         Then each of these directories has a Keywords file (just a
>         text file,
>         keyword: file1.jpg file2.jpg ...) and I have a script that can
>         search recursively for keywords.
>         
>         I know, you're probably thinking, "What a lot of wasted
>         effort!
>         [insert favorite big bloated Gnome app or proprietary app] can
>         do
>         all that and has a GUI too!" And probably you're right. But
>         with
>         my way, I can change my filing scheme or the way I access
>         keywords
>         at any time, I can copy any subset of my images to another
>         machine
>         (any platform) at any time, and I never have to worry about
>         how
>         to migrate a database if the program ever stops being
>         maintained or
>         changes its UI in a way I don't like. There are some
>         advantages to
>         the old-school text file approach.
>         
>                ...Akkana
>         
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