[support] Mass Categorisation of Images

[Brian Puccio]

On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:48 AM, John P. wrote:

> Hi,
> Im working on a drupal project where I have large masses of images  
> to be categorised... I was wondering if there was a way I could do  
> this without having to upload them individually. I tried image  
> import, but that does not give the option to categorise. The images  
> are in the thousands so individual tagging is not quite feasible. I  
> wanted to group the images (according to event) in albums and was  
> wondering how to go about this.

Well, if you embedded keywords into each of the image's IPTC using an  
offline client such as Picasa, iPhoto, Lightroom or Aperture, then  
yes, the images can be uploaded and automatically put into the right  
categories, though it would be done one by one. I have a CVS account,  
but haven't gotten around to submitting a module that does just that.  
Some more information:

http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/2006-November/001372.html
http://drupal.org/node/116089

I should have some time this week to upload it, as well as some  
changes I've made. Once I do, if someone sends me a patch that will  
let a user upload a zip/tar-gzip of images and handle each, I'll add  
that, in addition to the changes I've got laying around some place.

Sorry I can't be of more help.