- From: Greg Elin <elin@unitboy.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:14:13 -0500
- To: semantic-photolist@unitboy.com
Because of the time differences in this group, I'd like to send out a partial update on the repository spread across a three emails for organizing feedback. I hit two significant snags trying to bring the different pieces together and put up an initial repository. The first snag was contribution workflow. Snag 1 - Contribution Workflow ------------------------------------------ The proposed vocab[1] makes clear a number of data points we must have in the RDF. Most of these data points relate to applying the agreed to CC license to the photo...and the again to the comments. We need to identify the author, including a date of birth (for knowing when the copyright expires), in addition to the person checking of an agreement box on form. It also seems we need for the license the date the photo was created! Maybe we can get this from the image...maybe we can't if the image was scanned. This, and having a sensible name space for permanently locating the images created a bit more complexity than I expected. I think the lesson here is that including/agreeing to a license (especially when doing a group repository) creates a few special User Interface challenges. I don't have a very user friendly solution at this time, so I'm suggesting this clumsy workflow: 1) Contributors register agreeing to the license, providing necessary information, and creating a login, and our selected ID method for identifying author in RDF 2) Contributors login. 3) Contributors pick the Year/Event to which to add photos. So the first step is segmenting the photos to particular years during the upload. We can then store the images in the repository according to this structure: http://w3photo.org/photos/www2003/picturename.jpg http://w3photo.org/photos/www2002/picturename.jpg 4) It may also make sense to initially store the images in source folders tied to the contributor, example: http://w3photo.org/contributor/photos/www2003/picturename.jpg This redundancy may prove useful down the road in creating separation between what's IN the core of the repository and what's in the contribution pile. 5) The interface encourages people to upload photos in bunches taken on the same date. 6) System creates initial compliant RDF and shows it to the contributor I think the work flow turns out to be much easier if the contributor was just pasting in a URL to a proper RDF statement and photos. So maybe a better alternative is having a workflow that creates the RDF to describe the photos you are contributing. In this case, somewhat like geoURL, the authentication of the contributor is implied/trusted b/c it is parsed from URL that they must have authority to add pages. Comments appreciated as well as actual coding assistance. For example, it could be a standalone module for adding images to a directory and creating and RDF for those images...Then the W3photo.org repository would *only* need to support retrieving the images from an existing URL. I'm working on the contribution workflow today...will report as it goes along. Greg ================================== This is the TEMPORARY discussion list for the W3 Semantic-Photo History Project. For questions, contact greg@fotonotes.net. Subscribe Instructions To: semantic-photolist-request@unitboy.com Body: subscribe Unsubscribe Instructions To: semantic-photolist-request@unitboy.com Body: unsubscribe Help To: semantic-photolist-request@unitboy.com Body: help
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