[support] Drupal for image management, with metadata

[John Callahan]

Thanks for the link.  IMO, ImageField is definitely the way to go and 
what I currently use in all my sites.

Among that module, the MAQUM module (http://drupal.org/project/maqum, D5 
only), and the EXIF module (http://drupal.org/project/exif), there's 
plenty of potential.    A related conversation about the roadmap of the 
EXIF module is here: http://drupal.org/node/226703.  Looks great but 
still a ways off.

- John

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John Callahan
Geospatial Application Developer
Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501
Tel: (302) 831-3584  
Email: john.callahan at udel.edu
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Brian Choc wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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>     John Callahan
>     Geospatial Application Developer
>     Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
>     227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501
>     Tel: (302) 831-3584  Email: john.callahan at udel.edu
>     <mailto:john.callahan at udel.edu>
>     http://www.dgs.udel.edu
>     **************************************************
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