On 10/03/2016 06:59, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
I asked about this years ago...but the subject is back up here.
We would like to engage volunteers to help classify and organize our image
archives. This comprises some 1/2 million images, not all of which are
significant, but still present in the archives.
It is possible of course to build a data base and connect metadata in the SQL
tables/columns to filenames etc. but what we really need to do is stay away from
those kinds of external dependencies (been there, done that --> snake pit of
non-portability) and write directly to the IPTC Core data of the images.
We can do this in Adobe Bridge, and I can also leverage SIPs on the Mac using
shell scripts from LIvecode. But what I really need is a web based solution
that will run on LInux/Ubuntu. Any ideas? Marks Smith's old ID3 tags script,
still works even today, and this was a native LC solution (no external) has
anyone got ideas for doing this for images/IPTC data? once images are tagged
with robust IPTC metadata, then we can do anything with them from there and
it's all portable...
BR
This isn't directly helpful, but related information; when we needed to do
this for a client some years ago, we originally planned to do IPTC and XMP,
using the command line ExifTool. However, we found interesting variations in
what could be ready by which applications. In the end (the bit that makes it
particularly unhelpful since you want to run it on Linux) we found that the
best solution, ungainly thought it was, was to have our Rev app (as it was
then) direct GraphicConvertor through AppleScript to set the IPTC fields. That
produced the most reliably readable results. As far as I know, the client is
still using this tool in their workflow.
Checking my email archives, I find that that this was in 2008... so things may
have changed since then! But I would strongly suggest that you test a variety
of methods for setting the data, seeing how it can be read back in a variety
of apps.
other BR
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