<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Current Image Gallery Metadata Landscape</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Many people are using applications such as </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.apple.com/iphoto/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">iPhoto</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> and </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://picasa.google.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Picasa</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> to manage their photos. Professionals and serious hobbyists are delving into the new applications, </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.apple.com/aperture/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Aperture</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> and </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/?sdid=IGEG"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Lightroom</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">. These applications are what many consider DAM or </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Asset_Management"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">digital asset management</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> applications. These applications are all geared to handle two tasks: image adjustments (white balance, cropping, grayscale conversions, basic clone and stamp tools, etc) and metadata handling. I'd like to see Drupal work hand in hand with these applications.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">With regard to the second task of metadata, photos often have tons of metadata embedded (either in the JPEG or the RAW file formats) such as date, time, shutter speed, focal length, flash, exposure compensation, ISO, camera model, etc. The above DAM applications also allow shutterbugs to easily fill in relevant </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/pdf/IPTC_mapped_fields.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">IPTC fields</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> such as title (which would map to node title), keywords (taxonomy using tags), caption (node body), etc. Combined, there is a wealth of relevant information embedded in the photos. Many photographers like to see the more technical information when browsing online galleries (indeed, </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://gallery.menalto.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Gallery</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> already has support for such features). More casual users would like to easily browse their images by tag (which is mapped from the IPTC keywords field).</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Currently, there are plugins written for Aperture and iPhoto to allow exporting to </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.flickr.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">flickr</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">. Lightroom's export module creates webpages that can be uploaded, but currently interface with any online CMS. Rather than create plugins for each of the above DAM applications to interface to Drupal via XMLRPC, I would like to see a mass import module that has the following features.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Metadata Aware Quick Uploader Module</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">MAQUM would simply allow a user (with the correct permissions) to upload an image and from that image's metadata, would automagically fill in the right metadata, stored in taxonomy. (The image would be exported from the DAM software to any place temporarily on the user's harddrive.) Significantly, the date and time would be filled in for the creation of the node. The title of the node would come from IPTC's title field. The node body, which would describe the photo in a bit of detail would come from IPTC's caption field. Further, the images could be tagged in the DAM with terms such as sunset, beach, children, water, ocean, etc and these terms would automagically be populated into a specified vocabulary.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Going further, shutter speed could be its own vocabulary and using something nifty like the </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://drupal.org/project/views"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">views module</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> would allow you to say show me all photos taken with an exposure of over 5 minutes. Focal length, flash, exposure compensation, etc would all be their own vocabularies. Special styling of the display of image nodes and their associated metadata (which would now be found in Drupal's wonderfully powerful taxonomy) would complete the picture.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">An added bonus would be allowing a user to upload mutiple files somehow (either a "hot directory" to watch for or maybe as simple as a tarball or zip of images).</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Money Where My Mouth Is</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I am not a programmer. I can futz with Drupal, but I am most certainly </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">not</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> a programmer. I'll pony up $350 towards this. (Some stuff might be able to be cribbed from </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://drupal.org/project/exif"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">EXIF module</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> and </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://drupal.org/node/80534"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ajaxgallery</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">, in which case, I'd forward some funds to the respective developers.)</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">(Originally posted to </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono"><A href="http://drupal.org/node/93915">http://drupal.org/node/93915</A>)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>