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I'm going to admit that I didn't read the whole article. I remember about 10-15 years ago that there were a lot of photo organizers that supported tagging. Ta
by lizknope 1y ago
I'm going to admit that I didn't read the whole article.
I remember about 10-15 years ago that there were a lot of photo organizers that supported tagging. Tag the events as birthday or the people's names. I saw a lot of people who would then post "My photo organizer has been discontinued and I spent years organizing by tags. How do I migrate all the tags to another photo editor."
The hierarchical file system is kind of a lowest common denominator. I can copy a directory structure from ext4 to brtfs to zfs to ntfs to exfat to macos or whatever and have the same organization.
- esafak 1y agoDAM is the word! (Digital asset management.)
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoThis is exactly why I cannot get on board with tagging. Without a universal standard, I am one deprecated app away from losing my time investment.
- Lammy 1y ago> Without a universal standard The universal standard is Dublin Core (IETF RFC 2413 / ISO 15836) `dc:subject` “Unordered array of Text” stored in an XMP (ISO 16684) sidecar file: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core#Dublin_Core_Metadata_Element_Set,_1995 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core#Dublin_Core_Metada... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform I like to put the DC stuff directly in my filesystem xattrs, but using a sidecar file will get you compatibility with any old filesystem and with any tooling that might destroy or disregard an xattr.
- jeffbee 1y agoThis is an amazing bit already, but it would be a 10/10 joke if you could work "year of the Linux desktop" into it somewhere. If you were serious, then I would point out that even nerd file browsers like Nautilus do not support xattr metadata editing, searching, or even viewing and Linux metadata indexing systems e.g. Beagle are all long-dead projects. The whole idea has no traction.
- Lammy 1y ago“My software of choice has not prioritized supporting the universal standard” != “There is no universal standard”
- mcphage 1y agoWhich software does support the universal standard?
- Lammy 1y agoGP is right that XMP-supporting FOSS software is heavily biased toward media-management software, especially for photos, and that there is a distinct lack of a good Free Software file manager that supports XMP generically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform#Support_and_acceptance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform#S... I currently use a combination of my own filetype-detection-and-tagging software “CHECKING YOU OUT” (insert Dropbox meme here), Windows Explorer with “XMP IFilter Desktop Edition”, and voidtools' “Everything” 1.5: https://www.ifiltershop.com/downloads/xmpfilter/readme.html#sidecar-xmp https://www.ifiltershop.com/downloads/xmpfilter/readme.html#... https://www.voidtools.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1376 https://www.voidtools.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1376
- spankibalt 1y ago> The hierarchical file system is kind of a lowest common denominator. Which, in the form of folder and file names, can be your the first layer of tags. But familiarity with file systems is going out of the window as well, I've been made aware.
- miek 1y agoI have multuple friends who are college engineering professors, and they've been dumbfounded by the lack of basic file system knowledge. I had a hard time believing it, but ive seen it first hand in highschool age relatives.
- lizknope 1y agoI have some file names that are really long. If I can use 255 characters then why not name the files with lots of words so that I can use "find" or some other file index utility. I found the article from 2022 about younger people not understanding them. Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526