A simple gallery for intranet use
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manisharch
Joined: 2009-03-17
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Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 20:57
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I have gone through most of the features of this software and was wondering if there were any more advantages/disadvanatages of using this software over creating a simple tool for an intranet image library. What our image library should do: Thanks |
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The biggest advantage is that Gallery is already written, tested, used in lots of places and has a lot of plugin modules that extend the system to more things.
I moved my custom written gallery which was database driven to gallery after seeing Gallery 2 when that came out for precisely that reason. As I write this I've got over 10,000 images with no sign of performance degradation.
The disadvantages obviously comes from the learning curve when you don't have the features you want and you have to write your own plugin\theme. However I would expect that producing something that does the same thing will take longer if you had to start from scratch.
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Mark
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I am more inclined towards using gallery2 rather than using my own tool which I have already built. One main feature we need is the ability to add more tags per image. Eg: an image should have a general tag(or caption tag), name of artist, location, style, project so that it is easy to sort images or filter search when required. I may be moving into wrong direction here by providing various tag items which could be summarized into one tag section.
Any suggestions?
Manish
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There is a custom fields plugin (http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:customfield) that will give you additional items per image. I haven't used these myself, and don't know they interact with the search.
I don't think its been updated for G2.3, but there is a Google Maps plugin (http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:Map) which must use or encode location details.
I'm not sure about custom sorting.
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Mark
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The tags module as well as the google maps module work with G2.3.
There is also dynamic albums.
It is entirely up to you if you use what module to add your data.
As an example, the map module can be used to add coordinates to a item and you might be satisfied with the tags module to say "Dublin" or the custom fields module to say: "location"; "Dublin". It all depends on you.
Happy St. Patricks day!
Dave
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Gallery also has a tags module and a keyword module which create virtual albums of all images/items tagged with the keyword or tag.
And many more useful modules.
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
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Thanks for all your comments!
I am still not able to figure out a way of uploading images with multiple tag fields like, general tag, style, artist name, project etc.
This way I could refine my search better and could also list all the projects we have OR all the artists we have.
Thanks
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Here is a sample album using tags.
I created a multiple tag cloud search (at the bottom) if you want the mod, its available here.
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
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You add them after the item is added unless the item have IPTC/EXIF info embedded in the item already.
Dave
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I know a guy that adds his keywords at upload via lightroom or other, then copies them to tags.
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
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I think cloud search is great, but here is an example of a more refined search we would like. We were thinking to add multiple search tag items, not multiple tags in one item.
Say I have this table in DB.
Here is an example search now:
search for "yellow"(in tag_general) within project "project01" (in tag_projects).
Which gives img01.jpg and img03.jpg
search "night" images by "artist01", and we get img04.jpg
This may not be the best approach and I am still looking for alternatives.
Is there any better alternatives to this, OR, any already written modules with gallery2, OR, any workarounds?
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There was some development on a search like:
search "night" images by "artist01", and we get img04.jpg
I don't know where it is now.
Dave
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http://gallery-contrib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gallery-contrib/trunk/gallery2/modules/advancedsearch/
Not sure what state its in.
http://www.saulmade.nl/g2modules/
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:search
-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2