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Wikipedia – Location Library

R. Richard Hobbs — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:48:15 +0000

“A location library or location archive is a collection of visual and reference information, usually organized by a serial numbering system, descriptive keywords, geographic location (or more often than not a combination of the aforementioned) of locations, or places that might be used for filming or photography.”

Note: I started this article and contribute to it regularly.

links for 2008-04-25

R. Richard Hobbs — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:40:46 +0000

Restoring Film Incentives is a Financially Sound Idea

Restoring Film Incentives is a Financially Sound Idea | By State Treasurer Converse Chellis | April 23, 2008 – 8:00 am – Posted in Sunday Guest Post Series

(tags: South-Carolina filmproduction government tax-incentives film tv video news)
User Generated Content Advertising Lags – ShootOnline

“NEW YORK, April 23, 2008, — The growth of user generated content creators and consumers isn’t being matched by growth in ad revenue. An eMarketer report from last week projected the number of ugc creators will grow from 83 million in 2008 to 108 millio

(tags: user-generated content adverrtising internet shootonline news media)
Metalogging: Keywording images in an image database

Keyword = Key ideas/concepts expressed as words
Keywording = The practice of selecting the most appropriate keywords to describe an object, image, or work.

(tags: photography iptc keywords captions keywording metadata tags)
Controlled Vocabulary: your site for information on Keyword, Hierarchical Classification, Thesauri, Taxonomy and Subject Heading systems used to describe images in databases (Thesaurus, facet classification, hierarchy)

What is a Controlled Vocabulary, and how is it useful?

Takes the Guess Work out of Searching
A controlled vocabulary makes a database easier to search. Since we have many different ways of describing concepts, drawing all of these terms together under

(tags: metadata photography classifications taxonomy controlledvocabulary reference categories folksonomy howto imaging keywording keywords tagging)

Online File Storage for Location Scouts?

R. Richard Hobbs — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:13:23 +0000

The jury is (and may always be) out on the best solutions for digital file archiving and backup. What follows are some thoughts about same and some solutions I have been exposed to:

This videoblog post by David Pogue for his weekly tech column in the New York Times arrived in my inbox and I started feeling like I should, probably sooner rather than later, think more about backing up my ever-growing archive of location photos and other data I use as part of my livelihood.
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This post on TechCrunch got me doing something about it in an online way.
TechCrunch
- The Flickr Bogan-Martin Award For “Media Overreaction” | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 8:08 am
  One thing you can say about the Flickr team – there’s some fight in ‘em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and. […]
- Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut? [Video] | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 3:00 am
  With more than 200 deals since 2005, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham knows how to size up a young team of entrepreneurs. However, he didn’t get it right fr. […]
- Chamillionaire Just Wants Your Business Card | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:32 am
  Grammy award winning artist Chamillionaire (a.k.a Hakeem Seriki) has become a regular at tech conferences, perhaps because the hustle and flow culture. […]
Update 3/5/2008 – Mashable – July 28, 2007 — 04:50 AM PDT — by Sean P. Aune
ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites

“From sending one document to backing up an entire business, data storage is the key to everything nowadays. Due to popular demand, we’ve put together a list of more than 80 of the leading file hosting services, many of which are completely free.” (…read the rest…)
Mashable!
- Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Mythology Edition | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 3:19 am
  Hello there, weary travelers, winding your way — LOTR-like — toward the glimmering horizon that is the weekend. Isn’t this is thing we call life. […]
- BlackBerry Tablet Coming this November? [REPORT] | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 12:25 am
  BlackBerry tablet rumors continue to gain momentum, with a new report indicating that the device, possibly to be called the BlackPad, is set to hit st. […]
- New Apple Patents Detail Plans for Travel, Clothing and Commerce | Friday, 30 July 2010, 10:49 pm
  A veritable treasure trove of documents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show some of the different ways that Apple is looking to integrate l. […]

Here’s the scenario- as a location scout, I deal with A LOT of photos- individually they are not unusually large files, but between scouting jobs and photos that people send me of their property, I look at and have to deal with organizing a heapo’ pictures on just about a daily basis! Not only that, in the location scouting biz, information is money so there have to be ways to access this visual information quickly(as well as the contact info and notes about each- but more on that later…).

The first place any photos go when I aquire them is a remote 160 GB Firewire (or IEEE 1394) hard drive pretty much dedicated to archiving location photos, shortly after which, especially if the photos were made for an in-progress location scouting job, they get uploaded to my Locamundo account for immediate use in an online location album and archived for permanent reference.

Call me paranoid but what if:

my hard drive crashes?

locamundo crashes? (the photos get compressed on locamundo too and I have prefer to have “original photos”). Also I could lose my internet connection temporarily (its happenned more than once and could occur on the Locamundo end or my ISP’s end (network problems, severe weather/ power outage) in any case, its annoying and does nothing to help me help my client solve their problems, which we are more often than not trying to do on a tight deadline.

I have many of my files backed up locally on yet another local harddrive partition, but all these files on the same machine take up a lot of hardrive space. The cost is not such a problem in and of itself, harddrives get cheaper every day; however, all these files lying around in partitions on the same local harddrive(s) do nothing to help speed along more mundane tasks such as searching for files, whether they be related to location scouting scouting or not and really increase the time it takes for my anti-virus program to do its daily scan of my system. I defragment my hardrives regularly to help keep them speedy and healthy and lots of files make that go much slower as well.

Purchasing additional removable drives might be the way to go.

In “the real world”, the fact is, once my files are uploaded and keyworded on Locamundo, I may not ever need to touch them again, or if I do it is likely to be a long time before I do, but the fact remains that I cant just delete them.

Enter online storage solutions.

Right now I am trying out MediaMax Streamload. Streamload is the name of a Windows program ditributed by MediaMax which runs locally(on my computer) as a service and provides a secure network link to my private file storage account on MediaMax’s server. At this writing, MediaMax provides a free 25GB account, upgradable to provide more storage space. Then next upgrade level is 100GB for $4.95 per month, which is very affordable and which I might move up to as soon as I figure out why Streamload is hanging when I try to access the local folders where my files are located. I like the online solutions, they do backups on their end as well.

But…like I said, I gotta lotta files, it could be a matter of organizing them differently so the Streamload application doesnt cease to respond. Compared to local drives, an internet connection, from dialup all the way up to heavy-duty broadband connections are pretty lightweight. You can cram just so much info in a data pipe at time. It’s always something…

Update: After opening a free Media Max account and downloading and running the Streamload Beta, when I used it to find my files to upload, the program hung and had to be forced closed. Kinda defeated the purpose of using proprietary software whose stated purpose was to facilitate uploading large numbers of files simply and quickly. When I needed to do a restart my entire system hung. I rebooted to safe mode and to try and uninstall Streamload that way but its uninstaller would not work in safe mode. I had noticed that Streamload was running as a Windows Service so I disabled it there, rebooted normally and uninstalled Streamload. Summarily, it didnt seem to play well with my system, your mileage may vary.

Hmm, maybe there are some Bittorrent solutions out there? In addition to bittorrents typically taking a LONG time (this is my experience- again, your mileage may vary), they rely on a pool of people sharing a file to pass the pieces to each other and the Bittorrent app takes up recources while it is working- I dont wanna share my files with others and sometime I have to have a lot of programs open on my computer that I need to be running full steam- I sure dont need bog-downs and crashes trying to make a deadline! Still, gotta look into that a little more

CD’s/DVD’s you say? Been there, done that. Takes forever, ties up computer resources and the media (the cd’s/ dvd’s) data deteriorates over time. I have two crates of cd’s that I have used to back up files over the years and everytime I put one in the cd drive, if it is more than a year or two old, there is a good chance it is unreadable- corrupted. I have cd’s going on ten years old, I probably have a lot of files I may never again have access to. File recovery is VERY time consuming or VERY expensive. Remember Zip Disks and floppies? What a laugh!

IDE, Firewire and USB Harddrives have become very affordable so, as I mentioned above, this is a road I have followed as recently as the past year or so. Traditional IDE hardrives of very good quality can be bought very cheaply and the prices seem to continue to drop. Cases and USB/Firewire interfaces amke these drives removable and portable. These drives are fast. May be time to buy some new hardware.

I welcome feedback about all this so, for now, I am going to leave comments open for this post, something I rarely do, as I just dont have time (you see me trying to buy just a little time doing backups here don’cha?) to put into housecleaning blog spam. Akismet, do your thing! We’ll see how it goes…

4/21/2008 update | added map / feeds / general cleanup | previous timestamp: March 5, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Note: Post updated Sat March 5th, 2008.
Note: Post updated Sat Feb 17th, 2007.

Me on del.icio.us

R. Richard Hobbs — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:01:04 +0000

I moved my links off this site to point to my links on del.icio.us | del.icio.us/rrhobbs after several years of trying ways to keep up with the the links I use regularly, to maintain them using various scripts and built in features of WordPress (my site-building tool of choice), that del.icio.us proved to be the most efficient means.

If you are a location scout or need location scouting resources, you may just find some pearls in my links in addition to links I bookmark doing work on my websites. I spend more time that might be healthy on the internet doing research (plus I like it- a guilty pleasure of owning a computer…) and have accumulated somewhere in the nabe of 3,000 links so far- which might make navigating my (or anybody’s) links a formidable task if not for the fact that the links are tagged with regard to keyword or subject… and the pile of links grows daily.

-RH

Delicious/rrhobbs

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