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
************************************************** 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 **************************************************