[Feature Request]Linking Derivative Works
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 09:28
A feature that I miss a lot in OGA is a way to link derivative works. At the derivated art, I know that I can just put a link at its description to the "source", but the problem is that at the "source" no reference to its derivatives exists at all... I think it should be great to have at the "source" a list of links to all its derivated ones.
Something like what was done for http://opengameart.org/content/rigged-textured-dwarf-model and http://opengameart.org/content/dwarf-fixed , but automatically created when submitting art to the site.
I hope it's not so difficult to do...
+1
Freesound for example has such a feature. Example:
http://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/151624/
http://www.freesound.org/browse/remixed/36822/
As does OpenClipArt. Example:
http://openclipart.org/detail/167195/simple-bike-racing-helmet-icon-by-qubodup
http://openclipart.org/detail/164617/full-face-helmet-by-picapica
Ooh, I second this request. That would be awesome.
This is something I've actually wanted to do for a while. The hold-up is the fact that I'm not quite sure of a good way to go about letting people pick what work they're deriving from. it's more of a user interface issue than anything else, and any way I go about it is going to take some coding, so I need to know I'm getting it right from the outset so I don't waste a bunch of time writing code I eventually have to throw away.
How would you imagine a user selecting what works they're deriving from? The easiest thing to do would be to have an autocomplete field where you can start typing the title and then select it from the list, but a lot of art titles are confusingly similar, if not outright duplicates. This would be extremely error-prone.
Another possibility would be to have images appear along with the search results, but at this point we're leaving Drupal's built in behavior and getting into something that would be somewhat difficult to code cleanly.
Ideally, if would be nice if we had a way to do this that would be easy to code and not prone to errors. How do you guys imagine this actually working from the user side?
@bart:
Maybe better than nothing for now: Just a textbox, and a validation that the link(s) exists. :)
We've already got more text boxes on the page than I'm comfortable with. If we're just doing that, people may as well enter it in the description.
A suggestion: http://f.qubodup.net/oga-sources.html
To me, the image would be very important to be sure that I got the right source.
@q
That might be doable. I'll see if I can make that work this weekend.
Just a suggestion, that might be easier "art referring to this art"