- From: Greg Elin <greg@fotonotes.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:42:42 -0500
- To: semantic-photolist@unitboy.com
Hi All -- Happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S... Fotonotes.net ( http://fotonotes.net ) is now a community site for developing of an open standard image annotation and managing photos as a plurality of objects. The W3Photo's Image Region schema is included as one of the three variants of XML storage schemas for embedding data in the jpeg headers (http://fotonotes.net/spec/index.cgi?CurrentSchemas). The three variants -- Atom API, Sem-Web/Image Region, Adobe XMP -- reflect the 800 pound XML gorillas. Figuring out how to merge or support all three is a priority. Also, FotoNotes software has (finally) been re-factor and released open source! ( http://fotonotes.net/spec/index.cgi?Downloads ) The software only reads the Atom API schema currently. I feel awkward reporting that to this group, that it might seem I'm trying to leverage FotoNotes at the expense of this collaboration. I can't deny I've had to prioritze toward what I need to be able to do commercially in the near-term. But I hope its clear that including the ImReg schema in the spec reflects my other priority to develop and support a standard the community defines, and imReg is an important contribution. Also, with the refactored code now available, it should be easier to overhaul the w3photo.org site and extend it to properly read all RDF. Things are happening a bit suddenly because 2entwine.com has released their terrific FotoBuzz app (which FotoNotes was quite involved helping develop) but they are being ambiguous in their attribution and support of a common spec as previously aggreed. Others are also starting to release software reading the Atom API. So it looks like it is time for the spec to go to the next stage. I hope by putting the software out there it will be easier for this group to help extend things to be semantic web compatible. Greg Elin greg@fotonotes.net 917-304-3488 865-342-9048 fax http://fotonotes.net - "Because photos have stories.(tm)" blog: http://duhblog.com - "Articulate the obvious." ================================== 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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