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April 28, 2008

Metadata on pictures/photographs

DateTime - Roughly speaking, the earliest of file mtime, EXIF original creation, and other similar tags.
Location - User tagging, or possibly even GPS location in the EXIF tags

EXIF tags - Data comes from the camera and describes many aspects of how the picture was taken.
User tags - Three forms?

BADGERS (bare tag?)
LOCATION=singapore (valued)
PERSON=rob PERSON=rose (multivalued?)

This seems klunky, and what the hell are bare tags for?

Maybe something more like tag sections

First pass on a photo you can just list tags

Badgers, Singapore, Rob, Rose

The system then can attempt to recognize and parse tags into sections based on other data

Badgers, Location:Singapore, Person:Rob, Person:Rose

Then I run into the problem of equivalent tags

Location: SFO and Location: San Francisco should be semantically the same thing for searching