[wp-hackers] [GSoC 2009] Let's talk about metadata

[Casey Bisson]

This might be of interest to you:

http://archives.colby-sawyer.edu/browse/

It's a photo archive based on WordPress and uses Scriblio (a WP  
plugin) to manage the metadata and support the faceted searching/ 
browsing.

http://about.scriblio.net/

It's far from perfect, but it does offer a current use case example,

--Casey


On Mar 28, 2009, at 6:23 PM, William Holtkamp wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> I'm Will, a graduate student from the University of Houston and I'm  
> planning
> on applying the GSoC this year.
>
> I'm proposing to seamlessly integrate (seamlessly, as in, make the  
> interface
> pretty and subtle) metadata to the media library and pages systems.  
> This
> way, users can find all of the wordpress data via search instead of  
> just
> post-based information. With that said, I'd also like to create some
> advanced search options for type filtering. For example, you could  
> search
> for the tag "apple" and find everything about apples. Perhaps you  
> just want
> to find images of apples, so we'll filter everything else out. Maybe  
> images
> and posts, but not video or sound. You get the idea.
>
> Here's my full proposal:
> http://holtkampw.com/2009/03/gsoc-2009-wordpress-application/
> Password: gsoc2009
>
> Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts/anything?
>
> Thanks,
> William Holtkamp
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