By: Abhay

Abhay — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:12:57 +0000

Sure tagging is the way to go !
Pick any photo organization software worth its salt , it has this tagging functionality. If a user feels that a photo needs tagging functionallity because a photograph may belong to so many categories such as category (a) based on time line category (b) based on object in the photo category (c) based on the pixel quality therefore “size printability” such 4X6 vs 8X 10 etc etc. , I fail to understand why a user would not want to have a similar functionality for a ton of other things they come across in their daily personal or work life.
Take for example – from the minute you log into your PC you interact with Files – I am yet to find a system that let you Tag the file the way you assign tags to the photos.
Google has a desktop tool – great ! it does it’s own indexing – ( ofcourse consuming a lot of space and also making the PC somewhat vulnerable to attackk also … to some extent – anyways that’s not the point.) – Then you hope to find the right file by making it’s own search – I have lot of faith in Google’s indexing technology – currently best in the mortal world , but still it can not index a file based on the worrd that is NOT there is the file or it’s properties. Here’s a file – say a .jpg of teh Twin Towers (WTC – NY) – an extremely intelligent google like indexing engine may index the entry of the file with various words such as World Trade Center – may be even 9-11 etc etc. But you and only you know that this picture was taken by your 6 year old son Alex , so no matter how many searches you do based on Alex , you will not find it till … till you have the pwer to tag the file with the word Alex.
Ok – Point belabored but hopefully driven home – any utility , application that creates and stores data has to have an inbuilt strang mechanism to provide “tagging” fcaility. Period.

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By: Abhay