Perian, For those "Macintosh" folks in your audience, I know that the (free) version of iPhoto allows easy/direct uploads to your Flickr account, and I believe that all the meta-data will be transferred as well. What I haven't found is an easy way to "import" meta-data into iPhoto.... Though I haven't played around with it all that much.
Not to hijack your thread, but what I'm curious about is "exporting" meta-data -- specifically tags and such -- that users might have added. For example... If we upload a collection with an assortment of unidentified people, places, events, and then have a pool of volunteers "identify" them, how can this information be "mined" back out of Flickr and added to a photos data-file? Wish I were closer - would be interested to hear your program. Would you consider sharing any notes, outline, etc. that you might have? - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -----Original Message----- From: Perian Sully <[email protected]> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Sent: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 5:38 pm Subject: Re: [MCN-L] metadata exports and Flickr apis and tools Many thanks to everyone who responded to my query. Once I started researching it, it seemed very strange to me that there would be no tool available to do what I was asking, OR take the data and embed it into the IPTC fields. I know lots of photographers and artists use FileMaker or Excel to catalog their assets, without using Bridge or Lightroom to edit the files upon creation. Unfortunately, I have no PHP skills, or familiarity with working with APIs, so I can't really build a solution myself. Apparently, there's some way to use Extensis Portfolio to import csv, tab-delimited, or Excel files into the IPTC fields of the images, but I don't have the funds to explore that option. I'm going to look into some of the open-source DAMS to see if they have that functionality. I also contacted John Fox to see if his software, Memory Miner (which we currently use to organize and upload our previously-undescribed assets into Flickr - http://www.memoryminer.com ) can import data via a csv. He's looking into it and doesn't think it would be that difficult to do. Chris, I'll check with your friend Brian and check it out. That sounds like a promising lead! The reasoning beyond all of this is that I want to get all of our collection assets into Flickr soon, and I'm giving a presentation next week at the CAM conference about using Flickr as a quick-n-dirty means for increasing access to collections. I'd love to have a handy solution right at hand to tell people exactly how to do it (beyond copy-paste). Best, ~Perian Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley, CA _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
