I can't find a Web Gallery :-(

[wibbly]

... that will allow me to:


Upload my images and have them automatically assigned to collections of images based on the meta data in the images. See here for the kind of data:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_core_mapped.pdf


Build virtual collections defined by matches to various combinations of the meta data
So, for example,

The home page might be a list of all the photo's keywords, locations, etc etc as links. Clicking a link would show me thumbnails of of all other photos with the same metadata as the link.
When a viewing a photo, links on the same page for the meta data in that photos would again link to a collection of thumbnails where that metadata was the same in all those thumbnails.
I can build preset collections of combinations of metadata
Adding a new photo automatically places it in all the places where it's metadata inicates it need to go.
Suppose I take two (1,2) family photos at "Home" of my "kids", "Emma" and "Kate". I set the metadata so 'Home' becomes the location, the names and 'Kids' are keywords. Another two (3,4) photos are taken of the kids and marked "Holiday". On the home page I see links for

Location: Home Holiday
Keywords: kids Emma Kate

I click on kids and see all 4 photos. I click on photo 4, and see with the photo links to, say, kids Emma Home. Clicking on Emma, shows me thumbnails of all the photos of Emma, etc etc...

An I can, if I wish, build a preset collection showing, say only pictures of Emma at Home...

The important points here, are that adding photos has the photos' metadata automatically used. Everything is cross referenced to everything else. I don't have to be concerned about MY view of how photos are grouped. The user can view the data "pivoted" how they wish...

Has anyone done this?

John

[nwoods]

There is a way to do this, but it costs serious money, though it looks to be worth it though: http://www.scene24.net/quixpo/

You can see it in action on: http://www.vildaphoto.net/ (http://www.vildaphoto.net/) (click the language choice at the top if needed)

Regards,

Nathan Woods

[EricKonieczny]

Are you familiar with EE, if not take a look at it. It is much more powerful than 99% of web galleries out there. It can be setup for Keyword Search and user defined galleries. Alos with other PHP coding it can do just about anything you want. Even if you don't know PHP, you can hire someone else who does to tweak it for you.


Look under the EE forums for the recent customization thread about EE and Mambo .

[nwoods]

This one?
http://photography-on-the.net/ee/

[EricKonieczny]

This one?
http://photography-on-the.net/ee/


yep thats the correct EE, but there is version 1.5 out now and there is a new release coming very soon. So it may be worth to wait a little while to update.


Take a look here on how it can be customized.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=61974

And take a look at my gallery below on how it looks with chnages from the internal editor and settings.

[Pekka]

This one?
http://photography-on-the.net/ee/

Latest version is in http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29266
Demo gallery (no admin demo yet) e.g. http://photography-on-the.net/gallery/list.php?exhibition=1

[azkul]

What specific metadata would you use to assign keywords like that? What software or camera are you using to allow you to set the metadata? Is this something that is available to the general population of digital camera owners? If so, it might be worth it for me to write this functionality into my photo gallery site @ http://www.thelensflare.com

-Brian

[wibbly]

Well, a free tool for putting in typical data is here.

http://www.pixvue.com/

And how apps support different types of metadata is in the orginal pdf link I posted. So, for example, if you have PhotoShop you can edit the data Photoshop supports.

I might use the IPTC keywords field, or more specific fields where they exist.

J





I guess

[azkul]

Thanks. I will look into this further and see if what makes sense to auto-populate on the gallery image pages.

Thanks,
Brian
http://www.thelensflare.com

[wibbly]

The key (if you'll excuse the pun) to me, is that galleries are dynamic and 'pivot' around the keywords.

J

[mdr]

With a mysql/php host, www.snipegallery.com source and a little bit of hacking, all your wishes come true.

[wibbly]

With a mysql/php host, www.snipegallery.com (http://www.snipegallery.com/) source and a little bit of hacking, all your wishes come true.

... and the skills to hack the source, or course. Something you can do?

J