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Phred wrote:
> John Corliss 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-)

Well then, you'll just have to wait for the new file system that comes 
with Longhorn (HYUCK HYUCK!)

Seriously though, have you looked at the offerings here:

   http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwgcatalog.html

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