Thursday, April 10, 2008

photos



This is an image of cats sleeping. I found it on Flickr by searching on "cats". The creator is tjflex2. I am not sure if this is how I am meant to acknowledge the author. I am a cat lover and had cats as a child, they always lived outside and lay around outside like the cats here.

I looked at one of the pages on Flickr relating to tagging and noticed that sometimes pictures are tagged with variants of a word. E.g. nyc, New York City and New York are all possible tags. This is less sophisticated than a library catalogue where there are cross-references to a "preferred" subject. However, if a browser accepts fuzzy logic this may not matter as the browser may look for variations on a word, so 'nyc' may bring up 'new york' and 'ny'. I'm not sure if this is how it works really.

The idea of Creative Commons is an interesting one, allowing you to set limitations on use of material so it is not "all rights reserved" and not "no rights reserved".

1 comment:

Janus said...

Cute photo, loved the cats