2012/9/10 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> > On 9/9/12 11:36 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > > On 3 September 2012 02:19, Kevin Grignon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> KG03 - see comments inline > >> > >> On Aug 31, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> On 31 August 2012 02:20, Kevin Grignon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> KG02 -see comments inline. > >>>> > >>>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 <x-apple-data-detectors://45>, Ian Lynch > wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On 30 August 2012 09:57, Kevin Grignon <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> KG01 - see comments inline. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Ian Lynch <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> I'm organising the Open clipart library into categories. We could > use > >>>>>>> this then as a useful resource to complement AOO. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> KG01 - This adds a lot of value. Ideally we could aim to align the > >>>>> information architecture for the categorization. This would allow > users to > >>>>> leverage the existing knowledge when browse in each library. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Any thoughts about > >>>>>>> the best way to implement making the categorised library available > to > >>>>>>> the community? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> KG01 - it would be great to explore ways to make the open clip art > more > >>>>> accessible/discoverable within AoO clipart view. Some social > integration > >>>>> could enable pulling clipart into editors, or pushing an image from > an > >>>>> editor to the open library. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> While we could create a plug-in, it would be a better unified ux if > we > >>>>> integrate open clip art and local clipart in one UI. > >>>>> > >>>>> At present I'm just going through all the folders from > OpenClipart.org > >>>>> and putting them into arbitrary folders labelled Animals, People, > >>>>> Transport, Food etc. This is because each contributor simply puts > >>>>> often unconnected files in a folder so images on OpenClipart.org are > >>>>> grouped by author not type (unless I'm missiong something :-) ). > While > >>>>> there are some aggregations and an on-line indexing system on the > >>>>> OpenClipart.org site I haven't found it particularly easy to find > >>>>> things. It seems easier to me to have a folder called eg Animals > with > >>>>> sub folders for birds, insects, mammals, perhaps with subdivisions of > >>>>> cartoon and realistic in each. There are png and svg versions of each > >>>>> image. Ideally we'll get import of svg to AOO so that these can be > >>>>> edited or resaved in odg or odg will develop to be fully svg > compliant > >>>>> but I guess that is further down the development road. Once we have > >>>>> the categories established they could be embedded in the AOO gallery > >>>>> system and anyone wanting to could add to the library to complement > >>>>> missing items. Probably helpful for the OpenClipArt project too. > There > >>>>> really are masses of images to sort through but a lot of duplicates - > >>>>> millions of pencils and pens :-) This is why a visual search of a > >>>>> folder called pens is probably going to be more successful than > trying > >>>>> to search for key words. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> KG02 - yes, it would be great to clean this up > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> So at the moment I propose to plough on sorting the images and > >>>>> hopefully when they are done someone (perhaps you kevin :-) ) Who > >>>>> knows more about how the UX can work with the imagescan help make it > >>>>> easy to integrate into the gallery. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> KG02 - This is an interesting consideration. When we think about > social, > >>>> we need to apply the social integration to the context of office > >>>> productivity. I feel that social clip art is a great example of > future > >>>> capabilities. > >>>> > >>>> KG02 - I will include this scenario in the social design explorations. > >>> > >>> Once I have finished first iteration of sorting I'll send you the > >>> details so you can see what we have. > >>> > >> KG03 - Ian, great job. Ya, reach out to me when your further along. In > the interim, I'll capture a clipart social scenario. > > > > I have put the sorted clip art in a zip file in my public drop box folder > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1115462/casource.zip > > > > Snag is it is 360 meg! So not sure what is the best approach for > > dealing with it. Could probably do with further sorting but at least > > there is a good start so anyone could refine it to their particular > > needs much more quickly than starting from scratch. > > I think we probably don't want bundle it with AOO directly. I can think > of an extended gallery implementation where it is possible to hook > online galleries as well. >
+1 (for Clipart as well as Template). AOO should provide a kind of capability (with extensions) to easily search or browse the online resources. It is another perspective of Cloud/Social Integration value. - Simon > > Ok in case of OpenClipart it raises the question how it should be > organized/presented to our users. But allowing access to the online > resources will guarantee that we are up-to-date. > > > Juergen > > > > > > > > >
