Re: [SLUG] f-spot and the tags, will it get messy?

[Ken Wilson <kenwilso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Spiess wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or 
> tree events.
>
> I started tagging the pictures.
>
> People > Family > Brother
> People > Family > Sister
> People > Friends ...
> Places > AUstralia > ...Uluru
> Places > Germany > ...
> Events > holiday 1
> Events > holiday 2
> other > ugly people
> other > cows
>
> and so on
>
> for 160 photos I created around 20 tags...
>
> Then I thought about my other more than  10000 photos and all the tags 
> they will need.
> Of course I know that the tags will grow slower by time but even now all 
> my tags wont fit onto one screen height.
>
> So what is your experience with tags, with many of them?
> How do you guys organise/structure you tas? any thoughts?
> which struckture is not good, hard to scale....
>
> Cheers,
> seb
>
> PS: I posted this on ubuntu-au list a while ago but got no reply :-(

I have started to tag things then stopped as I realised that potentially 
there were so many categories that tagging photos took longer than 
finding them on a visual time line.
I have then in groups from particular trips, and F spot puts them on a 
time line which is a similar pattern. So far memory  and time line is 
working and that has been easier than creating a different tagging system.
This is similar to my slide collection which is mostly from trips in 
sequential order and I just use memory and labels on the actual slide, 
which has mostly worked, but all this will fail some day as I get more 
photos and less human memory.
cheers
Ken