I have done the existing albums with bins. This does a good job of publishing the photos to HTML. On the other hand, annotating and classifying the photos is a bit of a pain.
What I have done so far is populate a new directory under
AlbumLinks/ with symbolic links to all the photos (from the
directories in Camera/) that I want in a given album. Then I run
bins-edit-gui to set the titles and comments for the photos and the
album itself, which is a bit painful since the interface is not very
good. This makes an xml file for each photo. Sometimes I do extra
editing of these by hand. Then I run bins on the whole hierarchy of
these directories in order to generate the html pages, which are
placed under Albums/.
Since upgrading to FC3 and KDE3.4 I have been playing with the
digikam program. This is a much better way of organizing the photos
but its inbuilt web publishing is very basic (nothing like as good as
bins. With digikam, I can give tags to images, reflecting people,
places, keywords, etc. Then I can make other tags to denote the images
I want to export to a given album. All the metadata is stored in an
SQLite database.
My plan is to write a python program digikam2bins that for a given
tag will extract the relevant info from the digikam database and
automatically create a directory populated with links to the original
images together with the xml files that are required by bins.
All my programs are in ~/digikam2bins/.
Much info found from http://www.sqlite.org/
First exploratory program is test-sqlite.py. The program finds all
the photos that match a given tag and prints out the full path to the
image file, any associated comment, and all the tags that have been
added to each image.
It is pretty straightforward to make queries on the various tables in the database but the code is not exactly pretty. This is basically beacuse you have to combine two languages: python and SQL. A better idea would probably be to initially slurp in the entire database
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