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linuxart: F-Spot interface info

If F-Spot lives up to its promises (as it is only in the begining), it will be an application I will most certainly want for managing my photos.

=> See a mockup here <=

This may be a good moment to join well defined F-Spot use cases and the photo meta-data description initiatives (see FOAF Project CoDepiction page and Planet RDF) from the Semantic Web community.

In other words - to join the extensible and useful meta-data with a nice and useable interface. There is already a step towards this vision - tasks summary lists Beagle integration as a search feature.

What I would like to see:

1. (Main) - to see F-Spot use an extensible, full-scale photo meta-data storage (using RDF) for image meta-data - you can describe any metadata in RDF, but if you have a fixed scheme for describing, say, tags, that may not be so easily extesible to describe EXIF metadata or who or what is on the photo.

2. - F-Spot to be able to import metadata embedded in the photo (or supplied in a separate file) and to export metadata (as a file or webpage) for usage by external systems (i.e. codepiction).

Views and opinions are welcome.