RDF People Crawler (Photographic)

[Jeff Barr]

A friend of mine has been working on a way to embed a 
pointer to Metadata in an application header of a JPG file. 
Here's his site:

http://www.scandemonium.com/photodata.htm

Jeff;

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rohit Khare" <Rohit@knownow.com>
To: <fork@xent.com>
Cc: "Adam Rifkin" <adam@knownow.com>; <jhong@amihotornot.com>; <timbl@w3.org>; <dave@userland.com>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: RDF People Crawler (Photographic)


> So DanBri mentioned a fascinating idea/project he's been working on at 
> W3C that may well be the first entertaining application of RDF I've 
> heard of.
> 
> 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
> 
> Six-degrees-of-separation crossed with natural exhibitionism should 
> yield a very pretty brew of odd outcomes. I wonder, for example, what 
> chain of snaps could possibly lead from me to Kate Hudson. Or, for that 
> matter, Ekta Kapoor :-)
> 
> That is to say, the pleasure button is the shutter button.
> 
> See, it's too complicated to violate privacy of buddy lists; it's too 
> cumbersome to ask people to decorate their address books; it's too 
> inaccurate to just google for strings. But simply labeling photos with 
> who, what, when, or where, is a reasonably useful thing to build into 
> tools like iPhoto or weblogs. DanBri pointed out that 'co-depiction' is 
> a helpfully neutral lowest-common-denominator.
> 
> I also wonder if HotOrNot is a possible bootstrap database. Certainly we 
> know Yahoo!'s most-emailed photo service gives us a bunch more links. 
> And even existing 'album sites' have some hope of being autoscannable by 
> AI readers like SBook.
> 
> Hmm...
>    Rohit
> 
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