> Most challenging would be to get permission from the 1300+ POVers who
> contributed to p.b.i since 1999 to copy their images into the
> database... this could be avoided if any POVer uploads his/her own
> images by himself, but then it probably would not be a database related
> exclusively to p.b.i anymore! But... why not?

That would be indeed challenging as a (large?) number of authors is not 
active anymore and may have moved away, changed e-mails, etc. The second 
solution is away from p.b.i. and so less desirable.

For new images, there would be a need for a-priori permissions which 
might result in less postings to p.b.i. That would also be an 
undesirable effect.

>
> Another difficult issue would be working out the keyword hierarchies...
> perhaps I should start with an experimental local database into which I
> enter my stored images file by file... the bigger it grows, the more
> elaborate the hierarchies become. At a certain stage of development I
> would present a mostly emptied (just the database structure contained
> the keyword hierarchies, but no other images and scripts than those of
> which I own the copyright, i. e. the images posted by me (some 350
> files)) version of the database for demonstration to the webmaster(s) of
> povray.org.

It would be a good start as a proof of concept.

Thomas

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