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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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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