Re: [Gallery-core] AND search finished, request for review

Hi Bharat, hi all,

Bharat Mediratta wrote:
>> But the enhanced search is important for me, so I will commit
>> the changes in 2 days, unless someone complains.
>
> Please hold off on committing this until either I, Alan or Andy can
> review it.

Sure! I wouldn't have committed 21 changed files anyway without your
confirmation. I was kidding (placing an emphasized reminder). But note:
I find it hard to contribute to G2.

>  I've got a pretty big backlog, not sure about Alan and Andy
> .. but my guess is that we're going to need a little time to get around
> to it.  Regular reminders wouldn't go amiss :-)

Alan some days ago said on IRC something like 'hey, no more jobs in my
G2 queue' :-) .


+ The Importance of Enhanced Search

The 'minor interest' might still hold for users/admins of G2 using it
for some few family/vacation photos. But aware admins/users can take a
lot more out of the enhanced search.

In my case the whole IPTC thingy was done specifically to make a
Gallery with thousands of items searchable. The use cases are:

- Andy (admin) gets 100 photos all shot at a specific (cyclist) race
   once a month.
- Andy selects 10...30 of them and prepares them in Photoshop (size,
   colors, quality).
- Andy adds important IPTC data actively with some application
   (e.g. Photoshop File Browser / Bridge)
   - Andy selects all photos and adds the IPTC title naming the
     race name, location and year/date.
   - Andy selects the 5 photos showing the race winner and adds the
     winners name to the IPTC/keywords.
   - Andy selects the X photos showing other interesting peoples and adds
     their name to the IPTC/keywords. He repeats that with different
     selections and names, until finished.
   - Andy selects a bunch of other photos having common attributes
     (pictures of the START/FINISH of the race, pictures taken in winter/
     rain / sun / a specific town, whatever) and adds appropriate
     keywords to the selection.
- Andy uploads/imports the 10..30 files into the web gallery.
- Andy expects all his manually entered information and the
   corresponding images to be findable.


- Victor (viewer/user) jumps in just looking at some pictures.
- Victor sees a picture of some interesting person.
- Victor recognizes the meta data (IPTC) naming the person shown.
- Victor tries a search on the persons name, partially or completely.
- Victor gets back a list of hits, attracting him to inspect further.
- Victor recognizes additional meta data (another person, race name
   etc.) and tries another search on that (say the race name).
- Victor gets success again, 10..30 pictures of the race, but showing
   many different persons.
- Victor combines his 2 search requests and ... voila ... gets the
   person of interest in the named race.

Note that the IPTC keywords are very similar to the popular tagging
mechanismns.

best regards, Georg
  ___   ___
| + | |__    Georg Rehfeld      Woltmanstr. 12     20097 Hamburg
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