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Method To Catalog Photos On Zoochat By Species?

Discussion in 'ZooChat Community & Website' started by Sarus Crane, 26 Sep 2019.

  1. Sarus Crane

    Sarus Crane Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I just thought it would be a great idea to have a feature within the site to add metadata to the photos when uploading so that when you're at a zoo and you take a photo of a (for example) White Rhino, not only could you title the image as "White Rhino" but you would have a metadata field in the uploading page that lets you choose a species to list the photo under. If there were multiple species in the photo you could add those species as well. This way when you were looking for a particular species in the media galleries you could go into a taxon list and select "White Rhino" and all photos with White Rhinos or whatever species you were looking for would pop up. Anybody else think is a good idea for those of us who like to search for specific species on the site?
     
  2. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    You can use tags.

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    ... then go to the tag search page to find content based on those tags: Search Tags - ZooChat
     
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  3. Sarus Crane

    Sarus Crane Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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  4. Great Argus

    Great Argus Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Remember not everybody uses tags on their photos though, so searching by tags won't provide a complete result.
     
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  5. TheGerenuk

    TheGerenuk Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    You could also search photos by typing the species name in the search bar at the first media page. One of the options is Search Media Only.

    I hope that helps!
     
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  6. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    If more people used tags, then this would be more useful overall.
     
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