Re: Classifying Digital Photos with ACDSee 6.0

At 12:52 PM 1/23/2004 +1100, Andrew Hallam wrote:
>Anyone interested in digital photography might like to know that ACDSee
>6.0 allows the user to define categories that can be used like facets.
>You can tag each image with any number of categories and then use them
>to filter and search your photo collection. The out-of-the-box
>categories are:

Andrew:

This isn't really anything "new" IMHO. Canto Cumulus has had this same 
facility for several years. If you organize your folders in a similar 
logical structure it will pick the folder names for use as "categories" 
with a specific field in the database dedicated to such. You can also then 
assign the same image to multiple Categories as you please. I believe 
iMatch does much the same.

There are links to those mentioned above as well as several of the more 
popular image database programs (including a review) on my Controlled 
Vocabulary site in the imagedatabase section 
(http://www.ControlledVocabulary.com/imagedatabases/).

In addition, the "File Info" feature in photoshop, as well as a number of 
IPTC editors 
(http://www.ControlledVocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html) allow 
you to "tag" an image with multiple keywords to aid in retrieval.

At their core I don't think any of these qualify as a strict "faceted 
classification" system, but it is one way to get the job done.

David

David Riecks (that's "i" before "e", but the "e" is silent)
[email protected]  http://www.riecks.com/
Midwest/Chicago ASMP  *   ph/fax 877-646-5375


                                  


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