[support] Drupal for image management, with metadata

[Brian Choc]

You may also want to look at
http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_import
which uses ImageField instead of Image module.

Brian




On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu>wrote:

> I have a large collection of images (11,000 at the moment and growing) that
> I'm thinking about using Drupal for.  I'm wondering if anyone has experience
> doing this and what modules would be beneficial.  Using each image as a node
> with a decent taxonomy should work great for search and discovery.  Views,
> lightbox, etc.. would work well for display methods.  However, three
> questions I do not know the answer to are:
>
>
> 1) batch upload, even if only one directory
> 2) reading EXIF/IPTC image metadata and mapping them to taxonomy terms
> and/or CCK fields. 3) syncing attributes (i.e., edits to raw image EXIF/IPTC
> can update/reimport the node fields/tags and edits to node fields/tags can
> update the EXIF/IPTC metadata.)
>
>
> I'm using Gallery2 right now (http://gallery.menalto.com/,
> http://drupal.org/project/gallery) and it does some (item #1 and partially
> #2) of what I need.  It even integrates nicely with Drupal for users and
> display of images and albums.   However, I use Drupal for many other sites
> (and I'd like to use views, lightbox, tags, etc...) and wondering if I can
> bypass Gallery altogether.  Any thoughts or experiences out there?   Thanks.
>
>
>
> - John
>
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