Story-related images, WTF?
Let's say you have a radio news web page, with a title, text description, byline, date, and audio archive. All straightforward to encode in PBCore. But what if you have a related image, as is often the case? (Example: http://will.illinois.edu/news/story/fedrb-f/, or all over npr.org)
We could make a separate PBCore record for the image, then include <pbcoreRelation> element containers to connect the image with the radio news story with "Is Part Of" and "Has Part" values. That means we'd be spending lots of time cataloging images. That might be a good thing, but is it the only PBCore way of doing things?
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Hi Jack,
Creating the separate record for stills/thumbnails/etc is exactly what we’re doing for our archive projects at WGBH. One useful reason to do this (beyond “for the sake of completeness”) is to provide flexibility to have multiple formats/resolutions of an image easily discoverable when needed. Is this overkill for simple things like thumbnails? Almost certainly, but it lets you have a standard system for working with images.
Chris
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That’s what I thought, but I wondered if there are alternative methods. What you say certainly makes the most sense.
One thing I’m working on is automatic extraction of technical metadata from images upon upload to my CMS, and then auto-populating the Instantiation elements of the PBCore record for that image. One of the issues I’ve run into is, when you use Save for Web in Photoshop, it strips out the exif metadata. Hey Adobe, thanks a lot!
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I think what you are describing is similar to what Dave Winer’s been calling “bootstrapping thumbnails” (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), here, and finally]http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/01/09/thumbnailsRev2.html]finally here[/url])
The conclusion Dave came to regarding thumbnails is to follow Digg’s spec.
Another “emerging” standard we’re looking at is oembed. Flickr, Viddler, Pownce, Qik, and Revision3 already support oembed and Arron Winborn is at least aware of the desire to add oembed support to Drupal, so hopefully that will get rolled into a future release.
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