Cataloging consistency...

Cataloging an image collection is certainly difficult because some images don't have titles, subjects, etc and theoretically depending on the intended use images can be cataloged with iconologic terms (e.g., color, mood, expression, symbolism). For these reasons I am having a hard time consistently ordering my collection. Besides the fact that I am experimenting with submission and retrieval features of the technologies introduced so far, I think the lack of consistent cataloging practices is certainly of concern. I did some a quick search online and found out about an interesting issue in cataloging images - "concept-based" image retrieval and "content-based" image retrieval - hopefully I can dedicate some time during this semester to research this topic further. One thing that would help me is to catalog in writing my entire image collection (identify all the fields in advance) and use that consistently for the remainder of the course. I wonder whether a theoretical discussion about cataloging before experimentation with technologies would have been ideal to help us at least anticipate some of these issues in advance.

Installation of Drupal module of my choosing...

After reviewing the available modules under development for 6.x I decided to install the morelikethis module. It only took me about five minutes to find the download file name (found here http://drupal.org/node/316767). I followed the same command convention as given to us in the exercises. After entering the command one time, I got an error message. I looked closely but did not notice a typo. I almost got depressed and thought I had to go back and find another module but I decided to give it another try. As luck would have it, second try was the charm! (Could it have been a typo?#$% - well who cares it worked so moving on...) My next minor challenge was trying to configure it. I found some hints on the readme file (found here http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/morelikethis/README.txt?view=markup&pathrev=DRUPAL-6--1). The challenge that I wasn't able to overcome was how this actually works after a search is conducted because I still don't have a search box on my Drupal site. I'm not going to let this go because I want to see how it works. I'll be back... : )