Re: comments: [MM] PhotoStuff Image annotator for personal choice?

Hi Karl,

PhotoStuff is simply mentioned as it is a freely available tool that  
provides functionality to annotate image content with respect to  
ontologies. Therefore PhotoStuff, or any tool providing similar  
capabilities, can help enable the management of personal digital  
photo collections using Semantic Web technologies.

While you are correct that Flikr is a successful tool for image  
annotation, it does not support Semantic Web representation  
languages, which is the focus of the document. My other concern is  
that if we attempt to address user-needs regarding the development of  
photo annotation software, we may step out of the scope of the document.

Cheers,
Chris

-- 
Christian Halaschek-Wiener
PhD Student, Dept. of Computer Science
GRA, MINDSWAP Research Group,
University of Maryland, College Park
Web page: http://www.mindswap.org/~chris


On Apr 18, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Karl Dubost wrote:

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> Hi,
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> This is a QA Review comment for "Image Annotation on the Semantic Web"
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/
> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:50:45 GMT
> First WD
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> In this following paragraph, the WG tries to address an annotation  
> problem with the PhotoStuff Image annotator. It seems unrelated to  
> the title " 5.1 Use Case: Management of Personal Digital Photo  
> Collections" which says *personal*. How someone will be able to  
> install Jena, a java application, etc for annotating the photos?
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> [[[
> Regarding the actual content of the image, various vocabularies can  
> be used depending on the respective thematic category. The example  
> shows a photo that has content from the beach holidays thematic  
> category. For this reason, a beach ontology and the PhotoStuff  
> image annotator [PhotoStuff] can be used to describe the image  
> content.
> ]]]
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> -- Image Annotation on the Semantic Web
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/ 
> #solution_personal
> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:50:45 GMT
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> In terms of personal annotation, examples like Flickr have shown a  
> not perfect but workable solution for annotating images. It's why  
> it would be interesting to have specific reviews from people  
> creating these services to have their opinions about user-needs- 
> driven development on their softwares. I think they gain a  
> tremendous experience on a large scale and certainly that the  
> assumptions we could make.
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>
> -- 
> Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
> W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
>   QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/
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