Eric wrote: >I'm curious, what programs do you use to archive and organize photos? > >I wrote a script to import photos from a digital camera that renames the files by the date and puts them in year/month/photo.jpg directory structure. I'd like an interactive (GUI) program that allows for editing the jpeg comment field, creates collection of photos, indexes the whole archive (date, and comment), and allow for searching of the archive. > >Eric > > > You may be interested in IPTC - a standard for meta-information attached to photos. The topic comes up occasionally in a mail list that I follow, concerning how to save and extract names, comments etc from digital photos. There are some programs for this at sourceforge.net -- search for "iptc". Dunno if this is all you're looking for, but it may help with your indexing and searching. Kraig _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list