photospace
Alon Salant
Carbon Five
photospace
http://photospace.sourceforge.net
Photospace is an open platform for searching, viewing and annotating digital media in time and space.
For example, Saturday, Feb 5, 2005
Demo:
- web search
- rss reader
- tiger map
- rdfmapper
- create new rdfmapper map with rss & sf map
- follow date and location references
- search by zip
plumbing
Photospace is plumbing.
- Java libraries for extracting, indexing and searching digital photo metadata
- Web services that provide these services to a developer
- A web application that provides these services to a user
Everything is a search.
Simple concept - index digital photo information and make it available through powerful searching to as
many uses and contexts as possible.
- It's an onion
- The same core libraries drive the command line client as the web searching interface
- Backed by Jakarta Lucene
How You Use It
- Take a whole mess of digital photos and put them in a folder
- Optionally, geotag the photos
- Download and install the Photospace web application
- Point Photospace at your photos
- Browse/search the Photospace web interface, and/or
- Write your own client application
- Folder-based organization is important for low effort - local directory, ftp, scp, LAN, WebDAV
- Web application provides edit, rotate, delete
Geotagging Digital Photos
GPS not required.
Software for EXIF editing:
- WWMX Location Stamper (Windows)
- GPS PhotoLinker (OSX)
- ??? (*nix)
Options for geotagging:
- Use a GPS
- Location stamp by hand
- Edit metadata in photospace
- Ricoh Pro G3 GPS Camera, cameraphone
The easiest is GPS - best on a hike or day tour. For one or two photos it is not great.
- WWMX Location Stamper (Windows)
http://wwmx.org/Download.aspx
- GPS PhotoLinker (OSX):
http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/
So What
Looking for narrative
What implicit metadata is in digital media and how can we use it to find meaning and narrative?
Sharing and using metadata
How can metadata be shared among systems to find more meaning and tell better stories?
Mapping
What are maps for? Other ways to use location information?
Storytelling:
- Tell quokka history, first ascent v marathon des sables
Metadata:
- RDF/RSS is emerging as lingua franca for system integration
- Tags are even lower common denominator
Maps:
- Maps have turned out to be more of a puzzle than I expected
- I find myself asking, so what?
- Things on a map are an intermediate step in navigating an association
- What's nearby v. where is it - similar to same time v. what day
- Precision enables interesting things - Amazon A9, composite images, represenations of space