CD-Media Progress

[Brandon Martus]

I've made some progress on CD-Media, so I thought I'd tell those who were interested (that's you, huh?).

The import scripts are all finished, I believe. They generate thumbnails (2 per picture), and pull over the white papers files, too. The thumbnail script took several hours to run (on over 10,000 images!).

I've had some spare time the past two or three evenings (what?!) and was able to do a bunch of work on the tagging and tagging moderation interfaces. You are now able to add tags to white papers only (for now)both papers and photos. Once added, your peers can vote on these tags. Once there is a unanimous decision (3 for, or 3 against) the voting ends. If there are a few, and a few against .. majority rules after 7 days of voting. Once a tag is added, you may choose to remove it (it starts the voting process with an 'against' from you). Play around with it -- it's far from being done, but it's more functional than not. Anything in square brackets ([vote], [add tag], etc) is temporary and will probably be replaced with a graphic or something more pretty.

Now with a few tags in the system, you can see how easy things like finding the Chairman's Award documents or FLL documents can be.

The upload pages don't work yet. The photo one gets to the part where you choose an image, and that's it. I needed to get the thumbnail generation stuff done first, and got sidetracked by the import scripts.

I've started to add a few items to the FAQ about tagging as well. It's not done, it's not final, etc., etc.

So -- There are bugs, I guarantee. It's ugly, for now. Some of it is kind of working, though. Give it a try; this is just test data, cleared out & reset randomly. Feedback is welcome.

Oh, when adding tags, you can put more than one per line. Any multi-worded tags (like "Dean Kamen") should be enclosed in double quotes.

[Brandon Martus]

Some additions.

Yes, it's slow. There are very few (if any) indexes on the tables .. so it should get speedier once I figure out all the proper indexes required to make it so.

Tag aliasing; You will be able to alias tags where in some cases two tags could work, but displaying and tagging as such would be redundant. (ie: acronyms & what they stand for)

Example:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/pap...tionalpartners
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/tags/fip


I will probably also be making some pages to keep track of voting. A page to show your own modifications, and how the voting is going. A page to see all open tag modifications needing people to vote on them. And maybe more ...

[jdiwnab]

Looks awsome, Brandon! I can't wait to see it all together and a regular part of CD! Great job, man!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Brandon -

I noticed some of the tags for individual teams, such as 'frc234' or 'frc25'

Will this be the acceptable standard to tag all team related documents with? This looks like an easy way to find white papers released by a certain team, but will these tags be hidden from the main tags page? If not, I forsee this becoming very clustered.

[Brandon Martus]

Yep. We will be trying to keep a few tagging standards .. (frc234, frv11, fll15, etc). All will be document in the FAQ/Help section. As for the main page with the random & most popular links, we'll have to see how it goes once we have a ton of tags before we make a decision on what type of tag shouldn't show there.

[Billfred]

I've been going on a tagging frenzy, and a few questions emerge.

1) Is there any way to list the folder that it was imported from, at least temporarily? This would be a big help, especially for regionals where they all look the same.
2) When it comes to names, are we using their username, their real name, or what they're known as? (For example, is it Billfred, Billfred Leverette, or William Leverette?)

[Brandon Martus]

1) The import script will be modified to auto-tag pictures based on what folder they were in. So, once I write that and reimport everything it should be a lot easier to figure stuff out. They'll still need to be tagged further, but it'll give us a big headstart.

2) Names. I'd probably say username (who they're known as), but that's up for discussion.

[Brandon Martus]

Tonight's progress:
You can upload photos to CD-Media.
The process isn't final, but it's functional.

Play around if you're curious. All photos will fall into an approval queue that may not be touched for a while, so if your photos disappear like normal .. but never reappear .. thats why.