- From: Uschold, Michael F <michael.f.uschold@boeing.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:30:34 -0800
- To: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
These comments are from a Boeing colleague who is a digital asset management application architect (further details of this job description are found at the end of this message). I gave him the link to the MM task force site, and recommended that he look at the Image Annotation note. Below are his comments: Mike === I took a quick scan through both links and came up with the following thoughts: 1) Definitely interesting to Boeing so worth monitoring 2) There seems no intent to allow multiple vocabularies to be associated to a single image. At least, I couldn't find that. And really, it would be best if there was a way to cross-reference between vocabularies so if someone used a term in one not employed during indexing, a search engine could widen the search to known synonyms in other supported vocabularies to find a match then serve up the image as a result along with its matched term. 3) I couldn't see an obvious way to extend vocabularies for highly vertical domains or subdomains of supported vocabularies. I realize that is a pretty basic XML feature but it needs to get into the use cases somehow so it doesn't get lost in the newness of indexing images. 4) There needs to be a way to allow external and internal mapping between metatags. Few file formats will bend to support XML internally but they might change their internal tagging to conform with an external format standard. If that was coupled with the ability to reference an external repository of metadata then we would be able to fully annotate without having to embed everything in the image file. 5) How do we remove tags in order to preserve the proprietary knowledge associated with them? It would be a good thing if there was a hierarchy of standard metatags for security confidential information instead of forcing each application to come up with their own unique ones every time. 6) Any interest in non-textual semantics and related tags? It should be possible to encode color easily enough as well as hue and other technical attributes of visual imagery except maybe shape. Seems like we need a Unicode extension for this kind of information that could be used to describe images. That's it for off the top of my head. Digital Asset Management Application Architect JOB DESCRIPTION: Analyzes the customer business environments, processes, and data entities that support business requirements to create computing architectures and engineer computing solutions for the integration of Digital Asset Management strategies. Applies systems and software engineering methods, processes, tools, and techniques to analyze customer and information technology architecture requirements and design a system and application architecture that integrates application software, database, and delivery subsystems for specific applications. Participates in the development and execution of program and project plans. Works with organizations responsible for defining and operating business processes and computing systems architects to produce system design models that enable application development. Communicates with process owners, computing systems architects, systems analysts, programmers, and system and database administrators ===
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