Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:45:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711172245.RAA06883@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Lee Daniel Crocker Sender: Lojban list From: "Lee Daniel Crocker (none)" Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/) Subject: Clip art project X-To: Lojban Group To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1834 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Nov 17 17:46:08 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Now that the book is out, here's another project I think might be useful and easy for many to collaborate on: collecting a set of clip-art pictures of Lojban vocabulary for use in educational materials (like flashcards or the software equivalent, or illustrating other texts). There is no shortage of free clip-art collections on the Web, but there is still a lot of work in doing this job (which is thankfully very parallelizable): one, the group must collect the art, verify its source and that it can be used freely, and associate the appropriate Lojban selbri with each image (both gismu and lujvo, and maybe other descriptions). The art and annotations must be collected in one place and indexed, the images converted to a uniform size, resolution, and color (probably most useful would be black-and white drawings, and it's not hard to convert color drawings to black-and-white). I can do most of that; i.e., I have the equipment, the software, and connectivity to collect, convert, scale, and index a few thousand images and make it available to the Web. But it would take a much larger group to do the collecting and describing. We could split up the job alphabetically, or by image source, or some other way. There should probably be some overlap so that we can get more than one image for most words. Getting the images to the collector could be done either with email or FTP. Some way of associating each image with the Lojban descriptions must be done (by naming convention or something similar). Anything I'm missing? -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC