[support] Drupal for image management, with metadata

[John Callahan]

Thanks Justin for this link.  I'll look into it. 

The problem is that Gallery2 is not working for me.  It does a lot but 
missing some key points that could be project killers.  I do not like 
the date (and general) search mechanism.  It only makes a few metadata 
items (IPTC Keywords, Caption, Object Name and GPS Coordinates) 
searchable by mapping them to image attributes in the database.  And 
there's no way I know of to sync these attributes in the web/database 
with the image file itself.   Ultimately, I want my images to be 
searched the same time as my other web content.

So, I will have to pay for a service (like Fluxiom), pay for a 
commercial image management product, or get my hands dirty in Drupal 
and/or Gallery2.   Looks like I'll be getting my hands dirty.  :-)   
Now, if I can just fit that in with the other 20 projects I need to get 
my hands dirty with!

- John



Justin Gruenberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu> wrote:
>   
>> 1) batch upload, even if only one directory
>>     
>
> http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload
>
> That module provides a pretty nice way for you to upload images.
> Probably not 11k at a time nice, but it does work well and does allow
> you to fiddle with some attributes per image when you upload.  It
> works with ImageField (CCK) and image.module.
>
> If you go the image.module route, theres some other batch upload
> modules that can work with a directory on the server.
>
>   
>> 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 haven't done anything this complex with image galleries, but I can
> say... expect to do a good amount of fiddling and possibly writing
> some custom code to get what you want.
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I'd say if gallery2 works for you, stay with it.  That's a package
> thats built for hosting images.  If you're not afraid of getting your
> hands dirty, drupal might meet your needs closer.
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