RDF People Crawler (Photographic)

[Dan Brickley]

http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2002/02/paths/allabout.jsp?mbox=mailto:rohit@knownow.com
(server may be up and down...)

see http://rdfweb.org/ and rdfweb-dev yahoogroups list for murky details

credits: Libby Miller, Damian Steer and a bunch of others did loads of
this

more details when i'm not stood in a hallway with a laptop,

dan

On Fri, 10 May 2002, B.K. DeLong wrote:

> At 02:52 PM 5/10/2002 -1000, Rohit Khare wrote:
> >IF you take the effort to mark up your digital camera snapshots with who's who
> >THEN we can automatically generate a sequence of photographs chaining you
> >to anyone else
>
> Fascinating - the key to adoption, of course, is to make it incredibly easy
> to do - ie get Adobe, Macromedia and other companies with
> graphic-manipulation programs to allow you to setup a prompt that will
> request the info by default. Actually, you could probably setup an Adobe
> Action to do this now.
>
> Also, get the digital camera companies to allow you to set a default that
> auto-generates the RDF which you can edit later. I use a camera that has a
> smart card which my computer treats as a portable HD....I haven't attempted
> to look at the programming of my camera but I'm sure it's possible.
>
> The contextualization of images on the Web will make it infinitely easier
> to index, store and retrieve - an archivists dream :)
>
> Has Dan posted any of his research yet? I'd be interested in checking it out.
>
> --
> B.K. DeLong
> bkdelong@pobox.com
> 617.877.3271
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