I run an image gallery with thousands of images. I tried to tag all images by myself but I just figued it would take me years. So I'm thinking of letting users add keywords to the images themselves if they want to. The problem is that I run the website by myself so I can't just add a new field for people to type whatever keywords they want. I could never check if they're not adding useless keywords or the wrong keywords . I know the kind of users that browse my gallery and I can't fully trust them I was thinking (since the gallery is about a specific theme only), to show random tags that could be related to the image and let the users choose the tag that best describes the image. I could even let them create a whole sentence that describes the image perfectly using drop downs (a drop down for nouns, another for verbs, etc.), avoiding useless tags on the database. I don't need the whole dictionary in there, so it shouldn't take long to build the drop downs. You guys think this could work or are there other ways to let people tag images without needing a lot of attention? If you think IT IS a good idea... I was thinking of creating some kind of approval system. For example, if a keyword is submitted 10 times to the same image, THEN the keyword is approved and the image gets a new keyword added to its tag field.
Ok what I understand is, User browses page containing image ---if the image already has a tag attached, or already 10 submitted forget it --------if image does NOT have tag, let user choose amongst the list of tags that you (admin) maintain Once tag is submitted, it goes to approval queue for admin ---if you (admin) approves it it is attached to image othrwise just deleted let me know if you need something like this, contact me through PM or use my instant messaging contacts in my profile. regards