Re Sarah Saunders' comments:
Of course the off-the-shelf open source web CMSs are not designed to be image collection management systems as well so do not have the structure required for adequate description and creation metadata (and therefore retrieval) of images.
I think that the image collection management system needs to remain separate (currently) but would like to see the automatic importing of at least the essential picture metadata being possible in a web CMS. Perhaps someone has already build a WordPress media library plugin that would enable the categorisation of images, some more structured metadata (maybe imported?)?
I do get very irritated still that web CMSs automatically strip out my carefully crafted descriptions and other metadata from images, and would be delighted if improved media library capability could be incorporated sometime in the future.
Janet
Janet E Davis
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