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Workbench for biodiversity informatics.
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Task - Image set comparator/light table #42

Open mjy opened 8 years ago

mjy commented 8 years ago

From JW:

Often we need to compare standard sets of images across O.T.U.’s like the montages K. has put together for some cryptic species of Aphelinus (attached).

What would be nice, is to simply drag and drop labeled images into a workspace where they could then be sorted, like slides on a light table, and printed to pdf or hard copy.

So this is a very common request. While at OSU I proposed/pitched more or less the same and Joe Cora built Specimage as a result. Heraty also had features in the proprietary package he was using. We can follow ideas therein if it seems useful- I think we might need something a little more free-form ultimately, see below.

This also bleeds into the super-deluxe matrix-evolver-note-taker thing that we are planning ot build. In that scenario you are in exploration mode, and you simply drag new images into the table as you make observations. More on that in the months to follow.

Rough proposal:

When I have pre-defined set of images (e.g. one for each of two OTUs)
   and I choose to display them on a light-table like viewer
      then I get side by side comparison of images with similar metadata
      or I can drop them all on a light-table 
          and I can drag an image in x, y
          and I can move an image forward or back in a stack
          and I can rotate an image
          and I can scale an image
     then I can draw to select a set of images
        and I can quickly annotate them into other sets
        or I can add metadata
           I can add a note
           I can add a tag
           I can change the depiction target (e.g. specimen or OTU)
dceades commented 8 years ago

Matt,

I wanted to be sure you were aware of upthere.com. (My daughter happens to be a lead programmer in that company.) Is the proposal mentioned below anything more than simply trying to redo what is already done?

David

mjy commented 7 years ago

@dceades Thanks for the link. I think what is needed is likely more integrated/semantically tied to taxon data than what upthere.com provides. If they had an API that would let our users access the data they personally load there then we could consider using it as a image store- but I don't see anything obvious listed.

mjy commented 7 years ago

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