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Which necessary steps and how much time would you estimate per image?
by notachatbot123 3y ago
Which necessary steps and how much time would you estimate per image?
- xandrius 3y agoThey probably think they can code something in 5 minutes
- supermatt 3y ago"Before I dealt with huge collections as a developer" says the comment I responded to. 88k is not a huge collection of anything from a software development perspective. The compilation of that collection is obviously more considerable. Archivists at Getty have already said it is about 10 years work for ~20 people.
- notachatbot123 3y agoI guess that depends on what you consider "development" to be?
- supermatt 3y agoYeah, I suppose thats a fair point.
- chefandy 3y ago> I didn't consider how much intellectual work went into managing collections as entities I wasn't talking about the software development side, and I certainly wouldn't call the tech end of this a significant part of the 'intellectual work.' Organizing and managing 88k images is something my laptop 10 years ago wouldn't balk at, serving them is something a low-tier vps could do, and supporting CRUD apps for the archivists, etc are usually trivial. I think you're massively underestimating the importance of other people's tasks in these operations. Even as a developer, the people-focused work-- e.g. working with the other teams to strategize about how tech could best suit their processes, training, design iterations, etc.-- was more work than any technical component.