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Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

johnxx — Feb 24, 2015, 12:26 PM

As photographer, former image archivist and MODX developer I wish to get the following features for a MODX gallery :

- EXIF extraction capabilities
- IPTC extraction capabilities
- Geotagging capabilities

Please post your ideas & suggestions here.
If some image gallery extra developer planed to add this feature, I'm ready to spend time for tests & debugging...

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities (Best Answer)

gissirob — Apr 15, 2016, 02:47 PM

A good start Murat, but no metadata update capability and requires a server license. Now if your free client was available on Mac/ Linux...

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

daminion — Apr 15, 2016, 10:50 AM

Quote from: gissirob at Nov 14, 2015, 05:12 PM

I'm contemplating whether to build the capability to update metadata via the site. I still believe the best tool for creating the metadata in the first place is Daminion (http://www.daminion.net/download). The main problem is that it is Windows only.

Daminion 4.5 was released recently with a light-weight web-client so you can now access Daminion Server from your Mac/Linux. The web-client markup is adaptive and looks good on smartphones too.

http://blog.daminion.net/news/daminion-4-5

Intro video:
https://youtu.be/E8P3jPW2qEg

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

johnxx — Nov 14, 2015, 04:20 PM

Update: I wrote a snippet to work with ResourceSpace API.

- All image/metadata are managed with ResourceSpace (RS)
- All ResourceSpace resources (images and photo sets) can be integrated in MODX with a snippet
- All IPTC / EXIF data can be pushed to MODX
- The snippet can be used to search images from a MODX webiste
- the snippet works with pThumb for image re-sampling and caching
- As the snippet is an adaptation of jsonDerulo, queries can be cached

exemples:

// single RS resource
        [[xRS?
            &feed=`single`
            &tpl=`itpl.xrssingle.img`
            &rsid=`148`
            &cacheTime=`86400`
            &pthumbOptions=`w=1500&h=1000&q=100`
        ]]

// get works from RS (categories of photo set: features, projects, series, called "themes" in RS)
[[!xRS?
    &feed=`getworks`
    &tpl=`itpl.xrsphotoset.list`
    &rstheme=`project`
    &cacheTime=`86400`
    &pthumbOptions=`w=100&h=100&q=100&zc=C`
]]

For the moment RS resources ID for images and photo sets are passed with TVs

Obviously I would prefer a nice MODX back end integration allowing image browsing in connection with RS than ID ...

RS

MODX slideshow

Live example available here :
http://photo.jpdn.net
MODX website with all image content coming from RS via xRS snippet

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

daminion — Nov 14, 2015, 03:20 PM

Hi Guys!

Thanks for opening and contribution in this discussion! And a separate appreciation to Robert who mentioned our Daminion (I work at Daminion Software).

FYI a lightweight web-client will be avaiable in the upcoming Daminion 4.5 version, so it can be launched on Macs (but in readonly mode as a client for Daminion Server).

Would be happy to anwser to any questions related to metadata handling with Daminion.

BTW we plan to add support writing XMP into PDF documents in the new Daminion version.

-
Murat

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

gissirob — Nov 14, 2015, 11:12 AM

As promised, an update. I have a prototype image archive site up and running. For uploading, I'm using dropzone.js (http://www.dropzonejs.com/) and for image display I'm using slider pro (https://github.com/bqworks/slider-pro).

When an image (or group of images) is uploaded, a snippet is called that does the following:

1. Make both a thumbnail and various screen sized version of the image using imagemagick.
2. Create a unique image id (using exiftool) and store this id in the image as well as using it to rename the image (thus making file names completely agnostic).
3. Extract all the available metadata from the image and store it in the database for ease of searching and display.

To display images, another snippet is used to initially get a random set of images from the database and display both the image and the metadata on the page. A series of search filters can then be used to view specific sets of images.

I'm contemplating whether to build the capability to update metadata via the site. I still believe the best tool for creating the metadata in the first place is Daminion (http://www.daminion.net/download). The main problem is that it is Windows only.

The only extra I'm using is Login and there will not be any back-end management capability as this is a personal project. But this could be added if needed.

I'm not quite ready to share code yet (still debugging and adding features) but I will do so soon if people are interested.

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

johnxx — Jul 07, 2015, 11:53 AM

Just started to play with ResourceSpace (RS) API Search + phpthumbsup :
http://itchiweb.com/lab/resourcespace/rs-xrs-search/
(try: nature, tokyo)

- phpthumbsup is just for convenience, as it also possible to add additional image format to RS.

- Pluggable Remote API Architecture : http://wiki.resourcespace.org/index.php?title=Pluggable_Remote_API_Architecture

- RS Api search: http://wiki.resourcespace.org/index.php/Api_search

ExifTools is really impressive...

api_resource_types_fields should allow to retrieve All metadata fields (not yet tested)

...And try to handle ResourceSpace with JSONderulo extra, without success for the moment..

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

gissirob — Jun 04, 2015, 11:25 PM

wpicotte, I have started work on a site incorporating most of the ideas I discussed above. As it is for personal use, I am happy to make the results available for others to use. I also plan on documenting some of the key areas. I'll post back here once I have something worth sharing.

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

wpicotte — Jun 04, 2015, 02:23 PM

@gissirob @johnxx, very curious to know where this development stands. I develop photography websites and this capability is really important for photographers who manage large portfolios. Any update to share? I would love to integrate this...I don;t ave the dev skills to do it on my own, unfortunately.

Re: Incubator for MODX image gallery EXIF / IPTC capabilities

markh — Mar 04, 2015, 09:56 AM

Hi John,

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. As I mentioned, it imports only the image name from IPTC currently, not the keywords or a longer description. I'm thinking we could also add that though, so I've opened an issue for that so we can track it for upcoming releases.