Flickr, EXIF, Machine Tags - blech.vox.com. Last week Kellan from Flickr published my interview on code.flickr. I'm still somewhat amazed that they chose me to ask, but then I'm also pleased at how much people are liking snaptrip, and I'm happy to see my words in print, as it were. I actually compiled my answers a couple of weeks before it was posted, hence the reference to groupr as a "lost project". Now, of course, it's back, but I've already posted a couple of times about that.
What I would like to do is - finally, and belatedly - document (and update the released version of) my EXIF machine tagger. Why bother with such a thing? Flickr will extract EXIF metadata, but it won't allow you to do any aggregate queries on it. With that out of the way, how do you go about such a thing? I also add an meta:exif field with either "none" or the epoch seconds of the time of tagging, so that it's easy to exclude previously-tagged images from being examined again. Another drawback is that machine tags are normalised at Flickr. Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. A flickr machine tag browser.
Photos du Monde. Partage photo, galerie photo, photographes, tirage photo, DarQroom.fr. 2011 Year In Focus.