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Online Photo DB: Stage 4e – Evaluation of BeenUp2.com

This post is part of the Online Photo Database project documentation. Learn more about the project’s current status.

Which requirements does BeenUp2.com meet?

Id Pri Requirement Pass? Notes
GEN1 C Accessible by a typical web-browser Y
GEN2 I Active development of new features Y
OWN1 C Ownership of photos is retained by me. Y
OWN2 C Future-proofed against money running out: mine or yours N
OWN3 I Ownership of meta-data is retained by me. N
CAT1 C Photographs grouped into albums by event Y
CAT2 C Photographs tagged with people N
CAT3 I Photographs tagged with locations, objects, activities N
CAT4 I Performers tagged with real and stage names. N
CAT5 I Attribution of photographer details N
CAT6 I Attribution of copyright owner’s details N
CAT7 I Rating of photographs N
CAT8 I Sorting/Filtering by rating N
CAT9 D Albums grouped by type N
CAT10 D Albums grouped by date Y
CAT11 D Areas or points of photograph tagged N
CAT12 D Simple contact management of subjects
CAT13 D Hidden fields on contacts to distinguish like-named people N
CAT14 D Tagging of anonymous people to enable searching N
CAT15 D Corrections to names update everywhere N
CAT16 D Attribution of copyright details N
CAT17 D Control over (default) ordering
S+L1 C Link to other photos with same tag within an album N
S+L2 I Associate URLs with subjects, that are displayed.
S+L3 I Link to other photos with same tag across my albums
S+L4 I Search of tags by keyword
S+L5 I Cross-promotion of other albums and sites.
S+L6 D Link to other photos with same tag across other photo sites
S+L7 D Search of album names by keyword
S+L8 D User-generatable URLs to search tags by keyword
COMM1 D Multi-user Tagging
COMM2 D Notifications of appearance in photos
COMM3 D Comments permitted Y
COMM4 D Notification of comments
COMM5 D RSS or Atom Feeds for comments
COMM6 D RSS or Atom Feeds for subjects
COMM7 D RSS or Atom Feeds for new photos
PQ1 C Web-quality images shall be displayed by default. Y
PQ2 I Print-quality images shall be available. N
PQ3 I Automatically generated thumbnail and web-quality versions. Y
PQ4 D Archive-quality images shall be stored. N
PQ5 D Custom thumbnails (e.g. choosing to crop over shrinking.) N
PQ6 D Support for short video Y
PQ7 D Support for long video
PERF1 I Quota > 0.5 TB, if any
PERF2 I Low-cost Y
PERF3 I Fast response time Y
PERF4 I Scale to thousands of tags N
PERF5 I < 1 minute face-time per photograph
PERF6 D Free Y
UI1 C Forward/Backward navigation between photos in album. Y
UI2 D Slideshows
UI3 D Display of many thumbnails at once
PRIV1 C Their email address should never be published on the web.
PRIV2 I Registration and logging in not required for general use.
PRIV3 I Robust privacy features for photographs
WF1 I Hint to original location on my harddrive N
WF2 I Auto-complete or partial search on tags during input
WF3 D Read EXIF data from image N
WF4 D Support unpublished draft state
MIGR1 C API to add photos
MIGR2 C API to add tags
MIGR3 I Tags can be non-specific to areas of photo
METR1 D “How many visitors?” metric
METR2 D “How long does a visitor stay?” metric

Summary

BeenUp2 is a social web-site for party-goers who want to be seen. It is optimised for mobile phone photographs, with quick-and-dirty uploads with little or no processing.

No tags.

It isn’t the site for me.