[PRCo] Re: PRCo Photo Wiki?

[Dwight Long]

Herb

It would have to be different because Dementix is on the dreaded ecartis and 
that would defeat the entire purpose of what Bob suggests, which is to have 
the photo and the caption and the comments, if any, all together!

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:11 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Photo Wiki?


> Will this thing you speak of be a part of the Dementix.Org server or are
> you thinking of a different  system on a different server?
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Bob Iannucci <bob at rail.com> wrote:
>
>> All,
>> I have appreciated the many photos and stories from this group, and I've
>> enjoyed the various
>> photo websites showcasing Pittsburgh's rich trolley history.  And, of
>> course, the PTM is a wonderful
>> resource for those who have the opportunity to visit.  For me out here on
>> the west coast, I am quite
>> reliant on the online resources - this group and the websites.
>>
>> I have repeatedly felt that there is a need for something more, however.
>> The various photo websites,
>> or at least those that are still online, are fairly static, and only the
>> owners can contribute.  This group
>> is great, but email with attached (or semi-attached) photos makes
>> researching hard.  I have seen others
>> expressing the same thought ("I know it was discussed here a while ago...
>> I know there was a photo
>> that was posted a while back...").
>>
>> I imagine something that is just a little more organized than this email
>> list, and something that is a little
>> more community-maintained than the photo websites.  I am thinking of a
>> photo wiki, not unlike Wikipedia,
>> but devoted specifically to PRCo.  Think of one page per photo, with
>> commentary from anyone who
>> wants to contribute a relevant story.  We have had LOTS of good stories 
>> in
>> this group.  But in addition
>> to the photo, the photo credit, and the stories, I am thinking that each
>> page should also have a way to
>> indicate the date of the photo and the location.
>>
>> This structure offers several advantages.  The photo and the related
>> stories will live together on a web page
>> and can be easily found by search tools.  The date and location 
>> information
>> offer the hope that we could provide
>> the ability to search by date range and/or by location.  Picasa and some 
>> of
>> the other attach-photo-to-location
>> sites come close to this ideal.  A friend of mine in San Francisco is
>> thinking of something similar that
>> he calls Pastmapper.  So, perhaps there is a way to get this 
>> functionality
>> using some off-the-shelf technology.
>> Or perhaps someone is already at work doing this and I just have not 
>> heard
>> of it yet.
>>
>> I'd be willing to host such a site and support the underlying machinery.
>> But that alone is not enough.
>> In order to be a success, it needs community commitment to generate and
>> maintain the content.  If the
>> more prolific contributors to this group were willing to upload their
>> photos and paste in the stories
>> that they have written, I feel we would be off to a great start.
>>
>> So, my question is, what do you think?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
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