Re: photo tagging saga

On 12 May 2006 18:12:00 -0700
"stuff" <ourstuff888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My saga to find a photo tag/search tool is at
http://phototagging.cloudedup.com/The%20short%20version%20of%20the%20story.htm

I'm very interested in your views of tools, workflows and tag
hierarchies.

I use a perl script with a Tk GUI front end to manage my >10000
images. Metadata is stored in an XML file. I don't store
metadata in filenames, and normally don't rename images at all.
The purpose of the project was to be able to find images by
arbitrary criteria later, so a lot of effort has gone into the
tagging and selection interface. Tags are hierarchical, can
be extended as needed, can be applied or removed to batches of
images, etc. Related images live in folders and can have
descriptive text attached to them. Arbitrary selections of
images can be linked into virtual folders, transformed into
HTML, printed, etc. The tagging of images after a weekend of
shooting is the fun part and takes very little time. Other
than some cropping or rotation, or the odd case of bad exosure
or bad noise, I don't edit images as part of my workflow. It takes
much longer to select the images to go on a web page and write
the text to go with them than to bring them into the database
and tag them.

I have a long to-do list. The tags need to be replicated
as IPTC keywords inside the images for redundancy. The code
needs to be refactored into more of a model-view-controller
arrangement, with the model separated out so that multiple
viewer/editor processes can access the database simultaneously.
That means locking, atomic updates, notification of changes
by other editors, etc. I need the ability to move tags in the
hierarchy. Some parts of the code are more buggy than others
and need attention.

That's the view from my knot-hole.

Paul Allen
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