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Hello,

When tagging,

shoud we use the gerund or not?

I mean chop vs chopping, split vs splitting.

Thanks

hm, sometimes I use the both.

At work there is a lot of media to manage, and since I don't know who will be looking for what, I tend to keyword/tag media in almost every way possible that I can think of.

For example, to tag videos I include the date, location, general setting, talent, maybe a few keywords of prominent objects, abbreviations commonly used, keyword phrases, sometimes even color.

subc wrote:
At work there is a lot of media to manage, and since I don't know who will be looking for what, I tend to keyword/tag media in almost every way possible that I can think of.

For example, to tag videos I include the date, location, general setting, talent, maybe a few keywords of prominent objects, abbreviations commonly used, keyword phrases, sometimes even color.

That seems to be the consensus. Anything and everything goes. More time, but more chances for people to find the right sound (the one you upload) sooner.

In some search facilities (e.g. Google if memory serves) ‘chop’ and ‘chopping’ are treated as equivalent. Freesound’s search doesn’t seem to work like this though — e.g. searching for ‘banging’ doesn’t pick up ‘bang’ and ‘exploding’ doesn’t produce anything tagged with ‘explosion’.

This isn’t the easiest thing to code unfortunately. Anything involving natural language processing is relatively nontrivial. So as far as adding tags is concerned, go nuts. I’ve rarely ended up with sounds a million miles away from the subject I’m looking for when I’ve searched.

You must be good at poetry. Quantifying the search-results' quality in miles and such.

jamesabdulrahman wrote:
In some search facilities (e.g. Google if memory serves) ‘chop’ and ‘chopping’ are treated as equivalent. Freesound’s search doesn’t seem to work like this though — e.g. searching for ‘banging’ doesn’t pick up ‘bang’ and ‘exploding’ doesn’t produce anything tagged with ‘explosion’.

This isn’t the easiest thing to code unfortunately. Anything involving natural language processing is relatively nontrivial. So as far as adding tags is concerned, go nuts. I’ve rarely ended up with sounds a million miles away from the subject I’m looking for when I’ve searched.