Re: invitation to try ImageSnippets

Margareth (and all),
congratulations on the initiative!
I registered to experiment with the service.
As a serious non-professional photographer, besides a researcher in SW, I feel  it is still too "basic".
As you know, I have thousands of photos online, mostly on Flickr. I've spent a large amount of precious time tagging and geo-tagging these images.
It would be simply impractical for me to enter again all this information... the minimum I would expect is that you are able to import the EXIF data (Ivan Herman has written a program for this [1], for example; there's been a flickr wrapper around for awhile [2]). In addition, for services like Flickr and others that have an API, I would want the additional data imported as well, if only as a starting point to begin refining and adding semantics (e.g., people tags would be very useful).
Until such a function is available, I'm afraid I  won't have the time to add any photos, sorry.
I hope you have already realized this and it is in the works ;-)!
Best
D
[1] http://ivan-herman.name/xmp-extraction-service/
[2] http://wifo5-03.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/flickrwrappr/

On Apr 28, 2013, at 13:27  - 28/04/13, Margaret Warren <mm@carmapro.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Metadata Authoring Systems, LLC has released a completely new kind of
> application for images
> that uses linked data for metadata creation and saves the data in html+RDFa.
> 
> ImageSnippets can be used both for digital asset management within the
> application 
> and/or as an image publishing platform - with images shared/embedded in
> metadata wrappers. 
> 
> The application has a lot of features for linked data professionals, but it
> is designed to be 
> very easy to use by people who have little or no understanding of the
> semantic web. In preliminary
> testing, most users who had no knowledge of linked data learned how to use
> the system very rapidly. 
> 
> But the system also has a number of features for advanced users,
> oranizations or specialized communities. 
> Custom datasets can be built on the fly and by request, custom releases of
> ImageSnippets can be loaded
> with specialized vocabularies. 
> 
> The system is in very early beta testing and works best in Chrome so we urge
> you to test
> it that way. Firefox has some known bugs and other browsers have not yet
> been tested at all. 
> Also - at this time, any image you link or upload into the system will be
> publically searchable.
> 
> We welcome your feedback!
> 
> http://www.imagesnippets.com
> 
> Thank you, 
> Margaret Warren
> 
> 

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