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Scuba Forum / Scuba Locations / July 2006Underwater Photography - Fish Database Project
I've recently started a new project to provide a databaes of fish and coral photographs online, to help make it easier identifying fish from all over the world. My Father has been an amateur underwater photographer for many years and i've more recently joined in, having learned to dive a few years back. I've often sturggled to find pictures online or in all the reference books, so as a programmer decided that a more organized collection of pictures that is readily browsable by everyone, could be a great resource online. It's set up and running with about 200 of our own pictures entered, but we need your help. Have a look and if you have any pictures of fish that we don't already have in our database, or you have a better quality picture of a fish we already have, pleaes join up and submit your photographs. If you know the common name and latin names, all the better, but if not, we will do our best to add all the missing information. For any that we fail to identify, we plan on having a "Most Wanted" list, where you can help us out in identifying the fish. It's completely free to sign up and submit your photos, as underwater photography is a passion of mine and not work, so please join. Once you've registered you can also rate the photos, so that when I get around to writing the code there will be a top10 photos page, allowing new users to have a quick look at the best photos in the database. The site is: http://www.fishdb.co.uk If you have more than just a couple of photos to submit, you can zip them together and provide a list of information about them and send it to dave@fishdb.co.uk You will need to register on the site still and let us know your username when you submit photos, so that we can give you full credit for the pictures. I would love this site to grow to have at least one picture of as many different species from as many different locations as possible all over the world. I've already had so much pleasure from just reviewing all our own old pictures as I entered them into the database! Regards, Dave dave@fishdb.co.uk http://www.fishdb.co.uk davidecullen@hotmail.com pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :The site is: :http://www.fishdb.co.uk [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] :all over the world. I've already had so much pleasure from just :reviewing all our own old pictures as I entered them into the database! What are your file size limits? What if we don't know the full name of the fish. ie, what if we know it's a butterfly fish but don't know what type? Dan Bracuk If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. Hi, I left the filesize limits setting in php at their default, which is 2MBytes. When you submit a picture through the submission form, it adds an entry into a separate table, which I then check to ensure that it is an underwater photo (unfortunately there are plenty of idiots on the internet that would try to fill a database with pornography!). If you don't know the full details of the fish, we have plenty of references and I'm quite happy to spend some time looking up and adding details to your entry. If we can't locate the fish or are a little uncertain, we will still enter it under what we believe it to be and add a comment to say that identification is uncertain. I'm sure that someone out there will eventually spot it and inform us if we've got it wrong. Regards, Dave > davidecullen@hotmail.com pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: > : [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Hi, Having been sent some fantastic photos that were over 2MB I decided to up the limit to 8MB for submitting photos. Following various peoples suggestions, i've added the ability to view 25 pictures per page as thumbnails, a comments field per photo, a search by location, that lists all of the locations currently in the database and links to fish pictures from those locations and also a link that sorts the photos to show the most recently added ones first. Following some initial complaints about the quality of the photos displayed on the first few pages, I changed the sort order so that the best rated photo of each species gets displayed first. The combination of that together with some really great photos that have been submitted by users has now hopefully solved that problem. A few people have suggested adding a quiz, which randomly brings up pictures and asks the user to select from a list of possible common names (or for a harder quiz, the latin names). On lower rated photos, it's probably harder to identify the fish, so even photos of fish taken from strange angles or in poor lighting conditions are of use to us for this quiz. How often, when diving, do the fish just sit there in perfect lighting conditions, giving you a side-on view, so you can consult your plastic charts and work out what they are? Anyway, that's the next project that's still at the planning stage, but will hopefully be implemented within the next couple of weeks. Regards, Dave Cullen dave@fishdb.co.uk http://www.fishdb.co.uk > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Hey Dave, Sounds like a great project you have going on there, and wish you all the luck. Just in case you need reference photos with full scientific names, just click over to www.fishbase.org - they have everything freshwater as well as marine. > I've recently started a new project to provide a databaes of fish > and coral photographs online, to help make it easier identifying [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > dave@fishdb.co.uk > http://www.fishdb.co.uk Hi, Thanks. I'm using mostly "Coral Reef Fishes" by Ewald Lieske as my main reference, but it only has drawings rather than pictures, so i've got lots of other books that I'm using for checking. I'm also using www.fishbase.org for a final check, once I think I know what fish I'm dealing with. Regards, Dave > Hey Dave, > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > dave@fishdb.co.uk > > http://www.fishdb.co.uk |
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