From the Import to the Website — part 2: editing metadata and creating a sophisticated web photo gallery or archive—workshop
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In this workshop we will discuss how to add metadata (im particular geotags) to the photos that we developed in the first part of the workshop, and use the metadata for automatically creating the caption and the description of the photos while presenting them on a website. The tools that we will use for those tasks are: Digikam, Wordpress and Media Library Assistant for Wordpress.
We will start with adding tags and GPS data to the developed photos in Digikam. We will have a closer look at how to add GPS data to pictures with the help of a GPS track (GPS correlator tool). In this context, one of the most interesting features of Digikam is reverse geocoding: the software creates country, region and location names from GPS tags which are easier to understand than GPS coordinates for most people. Digikam saves those names as embedded metadata inside the photos. When the pictures are uploaded to a Wordpress website, the Wordpress plugin Media Library Assistant extracts the embedded matadata and uses the information for automatically creating the caption and the description of the photos. Naturally, as far as the description is concerned, the EXIF data plays an important role. In addition, we will discuss how to set up a so called Tag Cloud which can be used by the visitors of the website to search for and display photos with certain tags and geotags.
Finally, I will also show how to add (attachment) tags and (attachment) categories to multiple pictures with Media Library Assistant for Wordpress. Please have a look at the example website gallery.simon-a.info in order to have a better idea about the result.