Machine Tags / Discuss

mortimer?    says:

Ok this is a cross-post from flickr central:

Hello all,

as you may have seen, Flickr are rolling a new feature this week that they call "machine tag". Basically, these are tags of the form:

domain:predicate=value

like there was the geotag: geo:lat=XXX for example or the flickr:user=mortimer?

This new feature will apparently allow to make more specific searches on tags, etc... like searching for all photo tagged with a user:
flickr:user=*

I was thinking this could be the time to introduce a tagging scheme for SLRs photos so that we can search photo per lens. I was thinking of something like a set of tags in the domain "lens" that will give information on the lens like the maker, the focal length, the aperture, the model.

For example:
lens:maker=sigma
lens:focal_min=70
lens:focal_max=300
lens:aperture=4-5.6
lens:macro="1:2"
lens:model="APO DG Macro"

or:
lens:maker=canon
lens:focal_min=50
lens:focla_max=50
lens:aperture=1.8
lens:prime=true
lens:model="MkII"

This could allow to search for all prime lens: lens:prime=true or all macro lens from sigma: lens:macro=* lens:maker=sigma
etc... etc...

What do you think about it?
Posted at 2:19AM, 25 January 2007 PDT ( permalink )