In other news

[gement]

My job is going so spectacularly well that I don't even feel inclined to take time away to post the really wonderful bits here, but some highlights for my personal benefit (enjoy what you can of them):

Guerrila librarianship (imposing my political views on the controlled vocabulary, mwahahahahah!).
Thinking of 15 distinct uses for the word "queen" or "queens"... then figuring out how, by caption searches, to distinguish between them reliably.
Giggling at the hilarity when we find something that's been automatically categorized All Wrong (the Watergate affair under Infidelity, Flushing NY under Toilet).
Finding pictures of Ascot hats, Chinese ballet, actors I like, first ladies of tiny nations who have really frightening hair, Terry Gilliam sticking his head into one of his new hollow statues, the national Air Guitar champion, London's giant mechanical elephant, Eurovision's new winner who's made up to look like an orc, and Pricasso.
Outwitting the fashionista (who put 15 keywords on one image to signify that an actress is wearing shoes).

And now I really must get back to it.

Comments

[littlemystories.livejournal.com]

Yay for good jobs!

Hey! Hey! Will I see you tonight?

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Your happiness is contagious. I hope to see you around sooner or later.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

...Terry Gilliam sticking his head into one of his new hollow statues....

This poor Italian guy wins the lottery and is suddenly fabulously wealthy, and he's having a mansion built and furnished to his specifications. He tells the decorator, "I wanna grand-a piano in-a here, and a Persian-a carpet, an-a over here I wanna hollow statue." The designer buys and installs a lovely piece of sculpture, and the owner is furious. "No, no, a hollow statue!" The decorator is confused. "Did you want a different kind of statue?" "No, no, one a those things goes 'Ring, ring', you pick up an-a say 'Hallo, 'statchoo?'"

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

I hope your system has some way of dealing with pictures that are validly described by more than one sense of a word--say, a picture of a female impersonator playing chess with Her Majesty in a neighborhood of New York City.

[gement.livejournal.com]

... kind of. In that particular case, there's a little note in the cleaning instructions (since this word must be cleaned by hand) that says "watch out for overlap". Whether people listen or not is up to human error.

While that makes my fingernails itch, even I can see that keeping track of repetitions (how often a concept comes up in one caption) would cause more problems than solve them. We'd end up in exactly the same place, with the cleaner going "It's all in Flushing Stadium! I don't care if it says it's in there 5 times! It's done! Leave it!" Particularly with place names, when the caption starts with QUEENS, NY and then goes on to talk about what's happening, you get repetitions automatically; they become more noise.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, before I cut it for length, I used exactly that example in the cleaning instruction, except I used Freddie Mercury instead of a female impersonator. Heheh.

[rosacanina.livejournal.com]

Glad to know work is fun for you!I hope school is going well, too.