Friday 11 March 2016

Flickr pulls out all the stops with automatic tagging

Flickr really went to town with its automatically generated tags for my photo today. The photo was of star anise, which I took for the Challenge Friday Group; this week's challenge is stars. A straightforward, simple photo of the spice, I thought but Flickr read a lot more into it.

This is the photo:

Star_Anise_20160311_Signed

And these are the tags:

Flickr_Star_Anise_TagsThe ones at the top with the grey background are the tags that I assigned to the photo. The rest are Flickr's.

I deleted several of them before I thought of taking a screenshot for posterity but what is left gives  you a flavour of the range of concepts that Flickr feels are relevant.  Some of them I agree with (pattern, star shape, symmetry). Others I shall delete  as they are of no help to anyone searching on them (foliage, leaf, landscape, tree, forest, blossom,  pastel).

I do, though, rather like "minimalism" even though the structure and complexity of flavour and aroma  of star anise is far from minimalist. It  stays.
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  1. ian s21 March 2016 at 11:09

    not sure why you deleted all the extra tags... if I was doing a search for, say, leaf images, I might choose your image for my art project. That's a fuzzy search, not directly informational, but still useful.

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  2. Karen Blakeman21 March 2016 at 15:06

    Ah - interesting, alternative view of the purpose of tags, and the potential use of the image. I tag many of these images primarily from the viewpoint of a scientist, and in no way is star anise a leaf. So, that tag and some of the others - it is definitely not a landscape or a forets - were deleted.

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