I am considering a project to organize a large collection of
images and I am looking for a tool to work with. Since there is an
extremely large work factor involved, I can not afford to make
the investment of the time and effort depend on any particular
operating system or application software package.
At present the images (.jpg and .png files) are organized in a
hierarchical set of temporal directories, in two levels (year/month).
This repository is already in its final form and is not expected
to ever change.
Firstly, and before any work is done on associating keywords (probably
"tags" in Shotwell parlance?) with images, I need a tool for creating
and editing a hierarchical table of key-words. Once I am done with
keywords/tags, I need to be able to export the hierarchy in a text
format file.
Next, I need to be able to easily associate any key-word selected
in the key-word table with a selected collection of images.
Once that association of key-words with images is complete, I'll need
to export, in text format, the list of images (with the full directory
path/name) with their associated key-words. Certain level of key-word
"hierarchy smarts" would be usefull: for instance, if a lower level
(more specific) keyword and a higher-level (less specific) keyword
are both specified, higher level keyword would be dropped since it is
implied in the lower-level one.
It would be useful (but not necessary) to propagate edits of the
key-word (tag?) table to the images. (i.e., deleting a key-word
in key-word table deletes it from all images it was associated with).
What part of the above-described functionality is available in Shotwell
at present, and what part might be included in future versions?
TIA, Mark R.
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