Features

From Colourphon

Contents 1 Core 2 Proabably a good idea 2.1 Metrics 2.2 Harvester 3 What we are not doing 4 What we might be doing

Core

• service access
  • GUI access [in progress]
    • latest images scanned widgets
    • Firefox submission plugin - submit to api...
  • API access
• Use an image from an upload - ImageUpload - [developed]
• Use an image from a URL - ImageUrl - [developed]
• support JPEG, GIF, PNG and Windows Bitmap - [developed]
• Get an image for an ISBN from amazon or similar (note: there may be a licensing issue here, amazon are reported to have recently changed the terms of use to be [paraphrase] "sites that primarily provide traffic to amazon")
• Get an image for an ISBN from Talis Platform. (so much easier than amazon...) [developed]
  • put query through ThingISBN before Talis Platform image store [developed for an isbn search]

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• Determine the main colours of the image (mode of whole image) (Do this anyway for all images when storing data. we can use the whole colour percentage, combined with the existence of a desired color in particular cell reference to add relevancy)
• Allow user to overide colourphon's choice of colour. (Storage phase)

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• Save the image colour to a store with associated metadata (a colour has red, has green, has blue)
  • ISBN or other product identifier (clothing, DVD, etc)
    • link with other stores (find all details for this ISBN and where can I get a copy ;) )
  • Percentage of total colour in image (find me an image which is predominantly blue - GUI:sliders)
  • The image name (?)
  • EXIF info? Exif test [extract developed - waiting on store to submit data]

Proabably a good idea

Metrics

• save attention data
  • hit counts
  • user profiling
  • resource popularity
  • users who looked at also looked at

Harvester

• Strategy for harvest
  • Multiple Engines

What we are not doing

• Creating a so called 'CoverThing' - Licensing is a big issue. However we would happily store identifiers that could be used to find an image in an appropriately licensed store ;)
• but then maybe that is what we are doing. If the image we store is just a thumbnail, not printable or otherwise useful for anything other than a thumbnail.

What we might be doing

• Creating a so called 'CoverThing' - using the modal cell image