EXIF tags

[Oleg]

Do you plan to support EXIF tags? because these are tags as well

[martin]

Hi,

yes, we do. We are still discussing how to define which of the tags to extract. Do you have any suggestions?

Best regards,
Martin

[Oleg]

I'm not sure I got the question
But simple use case is this:
Let's say your user uses picasa as well and marks photos with tags like your, family, friends and others. These tags are written to photos using exif (AFAIK).
When using tag2find user want's to find these photos as well.

Main idea is this.
Let's say user went to Russia and took 100 photos, wrote 10 gps tracks shot 10 avi's, recorded 10 sound tracks.
User can set jpg tags using picasa like "tour,Russia" but actually user want's to set tags to all the media he/she got from the tour and should be able to find all the media content about tours using "tour" tag.

[Oleg]

As well I believe exif (or ID3) tags and tags visible and editable from tag2find should be the same, because otherwise it doesn't make sense to users.
See my post about mobile hdd and idea about storing tags information in special description files in folders.
I'm sure tags should be kept in files (it's possible at least for jpg, mp3) or in folder where file is placed if file format doesn't support tags.  
Than just make indexies upon all this info. What do you think?

[martin]

Hi,

thanks, I must evaluate EXIF closer, I had no idea it also had a "tags" field. The problem we have with ID3 (and I supposed to have with EXIF) is, that there is a lot of metadata there and the question is, which of this EXIF-entries to extract as tags.

Best regards,
Martin

[Oleg]

you can take a look at picasa and assign tag to any jpg, actually it's called IPTC keyword if i'm not mistaken

Hope this helps

[martin]

Hi, thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for

Best regards,
Martin

[lyle]

Just to throw in an idea.
The example above with the Photos, video etc, kind of supports the idea for location based tagging...  If you keep your videos and photos in sepparate folders.  you could define both folders as Tour, Russia  and have those tags added automatically?

[Greg]

Really, looking for this feature. A friend has >10,000 photos, and is badly in need of the tag2find concept, be great to either tag from the EXIF info, or use scripting tools to grab the info and 'tag' it via your API (yes, I realise your not ready to expose that...yet)

[martin]

We are working on it (both things)

Best regards,
Martin