MashPit -- Co-op Hackathon wiki / PhoTiger

The Problem

Nobody likes to type in information about their photos. That's why most of them are called IMG0008.JPG. How do you get information from other sources (online calendars, geolocation, plazes) to label the photos automatically?

The Team

TaraHunt
ChrisRadcliff
DanKurtz
BlytheDunham
DanChiao
Ryan
...add yourself if you were in Room 13 with us!

Our Solution

PhoTiger! Match up my photos with my events and cross-pollinate tags between them.

Screenshots and Mockups

Resources

Event Sites

Eventful
Upcoming
Zvents

Personal Calendars

Spongecell
Google Calendar
Trumba

Location Data

Plazes
Rrove

Photo Sites

Riya
Flickr

Assumptions for this revision

1) Photos are all online and taggable already.

2) Information comes from public events only (no logged-in users).

3) Shared information flows from events to photos:

what (event title)
where (geolocation tags)
when (date?)
other tags

General Flow

1) Ask for usernames/login info for each service.
2) Pull the most recent X events from the event/calendar services and display.
3) For the selected event, pull a likely set of photos based on start and end date (plus a bit of padding). Display the photos with controls for adding information from the event.
4) Update the photos with the selected information. Rinse. Repeat as needed.

API details

Riya REST API examples (w/ a test acct)

1) Authenticate (gives you an auth token for the acct)

http://www.riya.com/rest?api_key=47688f0d042c0abe&user_name=test1@riya.com&password=123456&method=riya.auth.GetToken

2) Date-range search on my photos (format is yyyy/mm/dd/hhmmss-yyyy/mm/dd/hhmmss)

http://www.riya.com/rest?api_key=47688f0d042c0abe&user_name=test1@riya.com&auth_token=222594b4f1ca0cb1&method=riya.photos.search.Search&bucket=my-photos&daterange=2006/4/3-2006/4/4

(forthcoming, next release)

add &show_tags=true to get the exif, tags, objects, faces, text for each photo in the result

3) Tag a photo

http://www.riya.com/rest?api_key=47688f0d042c0abe&user_name=test1@riya.com&auth_token=222594b4f1ca0cb1&method=riya.photos.tags.AddTag&image_id=9c6490374635e8135a48867d7fe237659f04857c&tag=123456

Eventful API examples (with test key)

1) List last 20 events user chris_radcliff attended, most recent first:
http://api.evdb.com/rest/events/search?app_key=test_key&keywords=going:chris_radcliff&date=Past&sort_order=date&sort_direction=descending&page_size=20

2) Get more details for an event:
http://api.evdb.com/rest/events/get?app_key=test_key&id=E0-001-000938553-2

Spongecell API examples (with WRITE API key)

User: mashpit13
Password: riventful

All events for user mashpit13:
REST: http://spongecell.com/api/rest/calendar/mashpit13?key=hc2a3HmHMYltxJFRp6Bmo8agvBPmmEDu
JSON:
http://spongecell.com/api/rest/calendar/mashpit13?key=hc2a3HmHMYltxJFRp6Bmo8agvBPmmEDu&format=json

Limit events to everything before yesterday:
REST: http://spongecell.com/api/rest/calendar/mashpit13?key=hc2a3HmHMYltxJFRp6Bmo8agvBPmmEDu&end_time=20060620
JSON:
http://spongecell.com/api/rest/calendar/mashpit13?key=hc2a3HmHMYltxJFRp6Bmo8agvBPmmEDu&end_time=20060620&format=json

Other parameters for limiting results, start time, etc:
API INFO: http://spongecell.com/api_info/api_method/calendar?type=rest

Mockups (and future home of site)

http://www.photiger.com

PhoTiger is a Summer of Rails project written in Ruby on Rails... mostly.

Subversion repository

http://svn.photiger.com/photiger/photiger/
user: mashpit
pw: mashpit

Anyone has read access, the login/pw is for read/write access. Please include your name in the commit log if you submit changes.

PhoTiger wins a major award!

A demo of PhoTiger won mumble-mumble place in the Best Mashup competition at Mashup Camp 2. The code used in the demo is available for download, but it ain't pretty. I'll try to put up a working version somewhere.