On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John
Callahan
<john.callahan@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@udel.edu
http://www.dgs.udel.edu
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