One of the projects that’s been rumbling along on Flightglobal for some time is that of digitising our archive of images and cutaway drawings.
The original step was to put a selection onto our prototype gallery software found here …
Since then we’ve set up the Community Server- powered platform AirSpace and seen that the images functionality on offer there is a more appropriate place for our ongoing image project.
Subsequently, we’re now in the process of transferring the various galleries and collection into equivalent galleries on AirSpace.
This is not a job that can be done over night but it does have some merit.
The advantages that AirSpace brings to a user include:
• Tagging
• Tag clouds
• RSS
• Rating
• Commenting
• User contributions
• Selectable sizes
The advantages it brings to us at Flight include:
• Search engine optimisation
• Expandability
• Better metrics
• Administration
Paul, our Images Coordinator, is looking after this project and you can see some of the galleries already going up. For example these cutaway galleries:
• Aeroengines - Jet Cutaways
• Aeroengines - Piston Cutaways
• Agricultural Aircraft Cutaways
• Business Aircraft Cutaways
• General Aviation Cutaways
• Civil Aviation 1949-2006 Cutaways
We’ll be running the new galleries in parallel to the old version until the migration is complete. At that point we’ll take the old versions down and redirect any traffic.
At that point we’ll switch our attentions to the remaining half a million images stacked neatly in boxes waiting to be scanned in …
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