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Description: See http://imagewiki.org and http://makerlab.com. This is an Image Recognition Service to foster an Image Commons. Code here includes an image comparator, a web service and a native iphone client.
Homepage: http://imagewiki.org
Clone URL: git://github.com/makerlab/imagewiki.git
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ImageWiki MERB Version.

July 2 2008
Anselm Hook
Ben Foote
John Wiseman
Marlin Pohlman
Paige Saez

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About
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An open source BSD licensed image comparison project from the makerlab.
See http://imagewiki.org and http://makerlab.com / http://makerlab.org

This repository is a migration of our existing code from svn.makerlab.org .

We are switching to github because we think it is better.

Also this is a code rewrite into merb from rails.

Please feel free to support us or provide feedback.  You can email me at:

  anselm@hook.org
  anselm@makerlab.com

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Contents
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/server - this is the merb site itself
          currently this is a vanilla mvc pattern
          we'll probably use merb slices later

/engine - this is a standalone c based comparator engine
          it uses the sift algorithm and features a scaleable datastore

/iphone - this is the iphone client; a native client for the iphone
          it is based on iflickr.

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INSTALLATION
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General tips

1) In general you want to follow a process like first getting merb installed, then making your database tables and then 
running the app. 

2) Merb is unstable and difficult to install - use this approach:

  http://merb.4ninjas.org/

3) To migrate your database tables use 

   rake dm:db:automigrate

4) The engine must be compiled and running before running the server.

5) Building the IPhone toolchain is hard also but it is optional