This may be a totally out of line request. If it is, accept my apologies, but please point me toward a solution.
I want to create a photo site where images and forums are very intimately tied together.
Images belong to events.
Events belong to folders
Folders belong to categories.
Images, events, folders and categories each have an attached forum or thread. By default there is a forum at the event level, and each image is a thread, with it's caption being the first message.
That's the 'real' hierarchy.
In addition I want a system for controlled vocabulary that encompasses people, time frame, event, location, subject class.
Using the controlled vocabulary, users can construct virtual albums. By default every named person will have a virtual album. But a user can make a virtual album 'my friends' that is the concatenation of the people albums of everyone he's declared friend. Or "my trips" which is all the outdoor expeditions he's been on.
The goal of all this is that pictures remind people of stories. Stories remind other poeple of stories. Stories remind people of 'that geeky kid named Smith' Now you have another name that can be applied in pictures.
The final requirement for this is that it has to scale well. I'm anticipating 100,000 images, a million posts, 5000 people.
Can coppermine do this, or anything close to this without starting on a blank page? Failing this, can people point me to a gallery that does do this?