Author Archives: Jonny

Privacy settings

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jonny

Privacy is a big concern when grouping photographs of people together. Facebook has very complex privacy settings to decide who can see which photos and we need to consider this carefully. First to be considered is the privacy of the … Continue reading →

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Week 8

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jonny

Today we were joined by Richard Gomer, who is acting as a critical friend to Tag4Fun and provides an external viewpoint on the project. This week we started by discussing and finalising the scope of idea. There were some concerns … Continue reading →

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Proposal: Two part prototype

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

I propose that rather than the simple idea with started with (tagging any image anywhere as long as you use the etags javascript library/plugin) we instead separate this into two parts. The decentralised data store (called… etags) which could act … Continue reading →

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OAuth

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

With so many servers running independently of each other on the etags network, there needs to be a way to give a server permission to access parts of a user’s social networking profile, without handing over the entirety of a … Continue reading →

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A proposal for a decentralised image tagging service

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Jonny
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Proposed Architecture

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jonny

(Note that this is proposed before we have completed the research on linked data – so this is subject to change) This first thing to notice is that there are many eTags servers in existence – the “official” one existing … Continue reading →

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Week 6

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Jonny

This week we were joined by Web Scientist Phil Waddell as a “critical friend” (basically someone to provide an unbiased opinion of the project… give ideas which we might not have thought of… etc…). His main contribution was questioning the … Continue reading →

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Use Case

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Jonny

Show above is the first use case diagram for etags which shows that a visitor needs to be able to View, Add, and Remove tags, and also view images of a visitor, while a site owner needs to be able … Continue reading →

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Mockups

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Jonny

This is an attempt to roughly show the typical flow of the application This shows a user visiting a blog. This blog has no association with tag4fun except that they have chosen to use the etag software on their site … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Jonny

The semantic web enables software to understand data on the web (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ). This week I have been looking into ways that semantic data can be added to the application in a standards compliant way. The first port of call is … Continue reading →

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