Which is the best tagging software?
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From: nospam on 30 Jun 2010 12:07 In article <890ljrFu6qU3(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Modify the tagging software to add the tags to the filenames. the file name is the wrong place for metadata, especially since there's a hard limit to its length.
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 30 Jun 2010 13:49 On 2010-06-30, nospam wrote: > In article <890ljrFu6qU3(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris F.A. Johnson ><cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Modify the tagging software to add the tags to the filenames. > > the file name is the wrong place for metadata, A filename *is* metadata. > especially since there's a hard limit to its length. I can't imagine needing more than 255 characters. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: ======================= Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
From: nospam on 30 Jun 2010 13:54 In article <891eceFk63U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Modify the tagging software to add the tags to the filenames. > > > > the file name is the wrong place for metadata, > > A filename *is* metadata. nope. metadata is exif, iptc, exif and other info, standards which others can use. your file naming scheme is not portable. > > especially since there's a hard limit to its length. > > I can't imagine needing more than 255 characters. i can.
From: Paul Furman on 30 Jun 2010 14:01 Peter Jason wrote: > I have about 2000 scanned family photos to tag into a > database. Eventually I want to select photos on, place, > names, and dates. I use Adobe Lightroom but in the end I upload to flickr and those annotations get updated & commented on with corrections so flickr is really my tool of choice. For my old web site, google searches it. Quicker than using windows to search my folders.
From: John Navas on 30 Jun 2010 14:19
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:01:40 -0700, in <t-WdnS3ZpccQG7bRnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, Paul Furman <paul-@-edgehill.net> wrote: >Peter Jason wrote: >> I have about 2000 scanned family photos to tag into a >> database. Eventually I want to select photos on, place, >> names, and dates. > >I use Adobe Lightroom but in the end I upload to flickr and those >annotations get updated & commented on with corrections so flickr is >really my tool of choice. For my old web site, google searches it. >Quicker than using windows to search my folders. Say what? Windows Search is now near instantaneous. What version of Windows are you using? -- Best regards, John Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer, it makes you a dSLR owner. "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams |