norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2004/02/01/shadowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2004/02/01/shadows/comments.atom2012-05-22T18:16:25.606636ZComment 1 on /2004/02/01/shadowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012004-02-02T10:11:20Z2004-02-02T10:11:20ZEd Daviesda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

> It’s a “mirror picture” of my father and I taken at Blickling Hall

Please, "my father and me" - you wouldn't say "a picture of I taken at...".

Sorry, I'm feeling draconian this morning :-)

Comment 2 on /2004/02/01/shadowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022004-02-02T14:22:20Z2004-02-02T14:22:20ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Okay. The grammar police got me :-)

Comment 3 on /2004/02/01/shadowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032004-02-02T19:36:39Z2004-02-02T19:36:39ZScptt Hudson

WRT the GUI metadata app, I'd really like that too! I've noticed that Photoshop 7 lets you store a lot of metadata, including caption, title, keywords and categories, but doesn't seem to be specifically using Dublin Core, which would be nice. It's also not a click and drag, and has taken me about twice as long to process my photos. I hope that the added metadata will come in handy at some future time, but have no idea how to search or extract the metadata I've already entered in each JPG. Do you have any tools or scripts to extract or search on this info?

Comment 4 on /2004/02/01/shadowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00042004-02-04T01:25:01Z2004-02-04T01:25:01ZMark Eichinda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I'm awful with GUIs (writing *and* using) but I did conclude that a graphical interface is what you want for captioning... BINS (sautret.org) is a photogallery tool that uses XML snippets for picture metadata (apparently much of the choice of XML was "UTF-8 means we get french accents to work for free" :-) and bins-edit-gui is a gtk-perl app that lets you browse a collection of pictures and add specific tags (and arbitrary new ones) to pictures. Pretty generic, the one "clever" feature is a key to auto-fill from the previous picture.

My current tool is a bit of emacs-lisp that uses (insert-image) and lets me build caption sets from emacs - I'm lazy and use an rfc-822 style caption file which then gets transmuted by a python script into the relevant XML (but that's what XML is all about - easy interchange...)

I'd love to see captioning tools that did even that well, with an open but still structured metadata format; popular tools like iPhoto don't even try...

Comment 5 on /2004/02/01/shadowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00052004-02-08T05:28:20Z2004-02-08T05:28:20ZJerritt

Scptt:

Photoshop does use DC where appropriate, as well as its own vocab, via what it calls XMP. (An XMP SDK is actually released as open source.)

It treats any EXIF block as read-only, though will burn the appropriate general metadata (such as author, keywords) into the IPTC block. Then there is a big chunk of RDF, right there in the file header.

The "browse" feature of photoshop is a somewhat nice interface for adding e.g. keyword metadata... select an image, use the metadata pallete to enter appropriate fields, it automatically saves. I don't know of any nice tools for browse by metadata but I believe that's what F-Spot is focussing on.