On 19.09.2012 17:19, Ian Lynch wrote:
On 17 September 2012 22:16, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm organising the Open clipart library into categories. We could use
this then as a useful resource to complement AOO. Any thoughts about
the best way to implement making the categorised library available to
the community?
Taxonomies are limiting, especially if a given clipart can live in
only one place. Tagging is more flexible. And searching is even more
so.
I noticed they have a REST API for searching OCAL, which is based on
text queries, e.g.:
http://openclipart.org/api/search/?query=trombone&page=1
So one option might be to have a smaller, curated set of
top-quality/most-commonly-used clipart pre-included in the install,
but then also have an in-product interface for searching the complete
online collection. Could also allow searching of other public domain
image sources, including Flickr Common, Wikipedia, etc.
That is exactly what I had in mind. For none technical users, seeing
some images in the gallery on installation provides confidence apart
from anything else. Few casual users will know how to use the search
facilities on OCAL and many would not even know what OCAL was. It
really has to be intuitive and simple for the most limited end users
:-). The quickest and simplest start is to provide a simple set on
install. Then look at adding search to the user interface. Snag I'm
thinking about at the moment is that ideally the curated included set
would be vectors but most are in .svg not .odg format so we lose the
editing which is a key reason to have them as vectors.
Indeed we cannot edit SVG directly and it would be hard to achieve this,
but you can 'Break' SVG objects and work on the resulting SdrObjects.
These can also be exported again in SVG format, but the roundtrip ist
stil far away from being good enough to call it an SVG editor (I'm
thinking about next steps :-))
We could just
use png but that's not ideal. Longer term it would be better for AOO
to support svg fully, but that is a big job.
Yes...
Sincerely,
Armin
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ALG
