No 17: How to Tag Without Words

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Simplified this right down.

Tagging tool for the CAGD site. Instead of tagging with words users are presented with a selction of images from the site. Users must choose a minmum of two images to tag their work with.

The idea is tagging become a way of discovering of new work, tags are no longer literal and descriptive. You would be able to view work which other users have tagged work with the same images.
More info
http://no-bad-news.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-17-how-to-tag-without-words.html

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Edit 26/5/2008
This is part of the upload section as well. I'm trying to design the search tool but it's impossible without the initial meta data. So how do you start to tag images? Words are obvious but what happens if you use a random selection of say five images taken from the site, you have to pick three that "describe" your work. Should they be random or should they just appear to be random? I guess this also relates to the fuzzy data idea avoiding narrowing down a search to far.

OK so looking at the database Graham sent the following is of use
| title | text |
| description | text |
| subtitle | text |
| summary | text
| keywords | text |
| tags | text |

from here return to the course philosophy

animation, broadcast graphics, illustration, design for print, web design, photography, art direction, advertising, traditional print and digital imaging and editing, typography, letter press and bookwork.

11 areas there, now not to limit it to far search through the published text and search for key or related terms. Bring up one image for each of those terms.

Or is this too complicated? Do you just want a random selection of images that you choose to tag with? Neil tagged this "Apple Poster"
Also number of images. Deliberately restrict images to 1,000? so they could relate to the above terms?

So ten(?) thumbnails tag with three images.
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Alternative tagging systems, purpose of tags.
Collecting information for user later on, curation, pushing people to use. What meta data are you collecting, why are you collecting it what are you going to do with it.

Is it possible to tag with images, sounds, colours?

Image from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Labs. From discussions with BBC Backstage how to visualize these tags, how do you develop more interesting ways of viewing tags. Print this post