Playing with Image Tagging for Workflow

At IndieWebCamp NYC this weekend, the discussion came up regarding workflow of saving various things. Media was one of them, particularly photos.

Now, in more recent years, my photography has moved from a digital camera to a cell phone. I just recently bought tools to better hold my cell phone when taking a lot of pictures and I enjoy taking pictures.

One of the issues has been with documenting the photos. Not everyone will I post online. Photos taken digitally will have a date, details of the hardware, and if with a cell phone, a location embedded(if that is turned on), but not notes on what it is.

I already had a rather complex app that allowed me to edit all embedded metadata on photos, but I found a simple one that only allowed editing 4 fields…namely title and author, and included bulk editing options.

I then, at the camp, fixed some issues that would pull that information out of a photo when uploaded and use it as the title and/or caption in the backend.

The problem is multi-fold. For one, will I actually label photos on my phone? Secondly, I upload to multiple places automatically…I’m not sure if the changes would sync before or after the automatic upload.

Glad that I am trying this, but more to figure out before it works.