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Re: Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

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Post by davidbarker »

uvesten wrote: post #2

I really like both the selection and the color chooser! Did you do any manual selection of the photos?

Thanks!

The selection is mostly based on the source sites I chose, like Unsplash, which all have only good-quality photos. The aim was to show all of the images from those sites.

The actual download and analysis of the images is done on my local machine, and each image has its own JSON file. These are then used to populate/modify the database, so I can track any changes to each image's data (if I add/remove keywords, for example) using Git.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

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Post by davidbarker »

j_lev wrote: post #5

Hi - for some reason the search bar keeps changing my search terms eg Australia --> Australium

Sorry — that'll be the search trying to get a singular term from a plural.

I've tagged the images with singular terms to make them easier to search, so it will change terms like "bridges" to "bridge", or "men" to "man", unless I override each term. If anyone can suggest a better way, I'd be very grateful.

I'll add "Australia" as an override, for now. Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

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Post by awesan »

davidbarker wrote: post #6
j_lev wrote: post #5

Hi - for some reason the search bar keeps changing my search terms eg Australia --> Australium

Sorry — that'll be the search trying to get a singular term from a plural. I've tagged the images with singular terms to make them easier to search, so it will change terms like "bridges" to "bridge", or "men" to "man", unless I override each term. If anyone can suggest a better way, I'd be very grateful. I'll add "Australia" as an override, for now. Thanks for pointing it out.

Instead of changing the search term directly, you can silently search for both.

Alternatively, you can use the Levenshtein distance to find words close to the search term (like its singular form).

Re: Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

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Post by mintplant »

davidbarker wrote: post #6
j_lev wrote: post #5

Hi - for some reason the search bar keeps changing my search terms eg Australia --> Australium

Sorry — that'll be the search trying to get a singular term from a plural. I've tagged the images with singular terms to make them easier to search, so it will change terms like "bridges" to "bridge", or "men" to "man", unless I override each term. If anyone can suggest a better way, I'd be very grateful. I'll add "Australia" as an override, for now. Thanks for pointing it out.

Have you looked into using stemming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming

Most major languages should have a library available to handle this for you.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

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Post by pigscantfly »

davidbarker wrote: post #4
uvesten wrote: post #2

I really like both the selection and the color chooser! Did you do any manual selection of the photos?

Thanks! The selection is mostly based on the source sites I chose, like Unsplash, which all have only good-quality photos. The aim was to show all of the images from those sites. The actual download and analysis of the images is done on my local machine, and each image has its own JSON file. These are then used to populate/modify the database, so I can track any changes to each image's data (if I add/remove keywords,…

Have you thought about automating keyword discovery or do you plan to stick with a manually-auditable dataset?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.2306.pdf

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