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coppermineuk:
Gau Gau was about right,

In my example all of my photos have unique filenames - My digital camera sees to that.

What I was hoping to do is keep an offline register of my photos, their titles, their descriptions etc. in a database or excel file. I could then easily export this to a CSV file containing entries such as ;

Filename,Title,Description
IMG101_1044,My Photo,This is a description of my photo.

If this csv file was uploaded then as part of the batch add process coppermine could check for entries in the CSV file for any photos uploaded and then automatically populate the descriptions.

Does that make sense?  ???
Paul

Joachim Müller:
sounds like a good idea to me, I'll movbe this thread from "CPG 1.3 Standalone Support" -> "Upload" to "Feature requests" then and mark as "Valid". You (or anyone else reading this thread) are welcome to post a mod/jack to accomplish what you're requesting. We currently have a feature freeze for the devel version (we're planning to release soon), so this probably won't be done anytime soon by a dev team member.

Joachim

pnear:
I accomplish this using IPTC embedded information for description, keywords, etc.  The advantage of this approach is that it's future-proof and accomplishes the same goal that you're alluding to. Instead of the information living in a text file (the format of which may always be different) it lives within the image itself.  This makes maintenance and more importantly portability of the image seamless.  I personally use Adobe photoshop elements to maintain my image library, which has great organization tools and writes info out to IPTC.  Alternatively there are free tools like pixvue or exifer that can maintain this info as well.  Coppermine understands IPTC and support for it appears to be growing in future versions of Coppermine. 

Personally, I'd like to provide users with a tutorial on how to use IPTC including:
- What is IPTC
- What tools can I use to maintain IPTC information
- How does Coppermine use IPTC information

Yes, that is the sound of me volunteering.  Ping me back when you're looking to release 1.4 tutorials and I'll happily write a tutorial.

More pontification on this subject here:
http://www.thenears.com/index.php?p=84

Pete

Joachim Müller:
tutorials would be very welcome indeed, even before the release of cpg1.4 ;) The features should be stable (we had a feature freeze), there's only some bugs to be ironed out and then the translation can start.

Joachim

pnear:
I'll do what I can based on tutorial templates already posted.  Finding the time might be the issue, but I'll add it to the task list.

Pete

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