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In article <10be62287e6r080@corp.supernews.com>, 
John Corliss <jcorliss@secrewspam.to#> wrote:
>Keith Gardner wrote:
>> Someone asked me today to work on a database to search, sort and manage a 
>> 5000+ picture photo collection. They need to be able to search quickly by 
>> description, date, etc., then display thumbnails of the matching pictures, 
>> and allow the users to click on a thumbnail to display the high resolution 
>> photo. Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>Keith, I recently finished a photo scanning project that was over 2000
>images. The way I arranged the thing was to create folders that were
>appropriately named by year, month and day (in that order) and then to
>name the images by subject. When I named the images, I kept in mind
>the character length limitations of the media I planned to distribute
>and store the collection on. Then I simply used Irfanview to display
>thumbnails for clicking on to view the high resolution photos.
>Worked for me. Irfanview is here:   http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/

John, I don't see that as working very well if you consider that any 
one photo may need to be indexed under two or more "topics" other than 
date and main subject (e.g. location, content, people) as well as 
technical data such as at least the basics of film type and camera.

I suspect one needs a full database solution if one is serious.

P.S.  I'm interested in the same for about 40*20*36 ~ 29000 images as 
a rough minimum approximation.  (I wish I hadn't worked that out. 8-)


Cheers, Phred.

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