Re: using public-esw for image description dicsussions

On Dec 18, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Libby Miller wrote:

>
>
> hi all,
>
> I'm going to be collaborating with Greg Elin (fotonotes) and others on
> a photos site drawing together depiction metadata for all the WWW
> conferences. We had a discussion today about it:
>
> http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2003/12/18/2003-12-18.html#1071760457.693080
>
> Brian McBride suggested that we use this mailing list for
> discussions about this. It's not clear how much traffic this will
> create, but it is rather nicely related to the SWAD-E project and in
> particular, should generate some good FAQs (which we will need for our
> newsletter, to start in the new year).
>
> The idea of the project is to create a database of creative-commons
> licensed photos and metdata and create some interesting interfaces to
> it, to be usable by WWW2004 on May 2004. It's likely that we will use
> many vocabularies, including Dublin Core, FOAF, GEO, Wordnet and
> RDFiCal, and so hopefully we should be able to come up with some good
> documentation about how to combine these vocabularies. In addition, we
> will run into very real practical problems such as how to identify
> people and how to create user interfaces to this kind of RDF creation.
>
> I think it's a strong candidate for discussion here, not least
> because of the connections with the image workshop we held last year,
> but I'd like to have your opinions in case there's a better forum. 
> Would
> it bother you guys if we used this list?

It certainly wouldn't bother me :) and I'd be interested in helping in 
any way I can.

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eric miller                              http://www.w3.org/people/em/
semantic web activity lead               http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
w3c world wide web consortium            http://www.w3.org/

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