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Hi Tony,

It’s all a bit uncertain at this stage, but we’re looking to display 3-400 images of historical printing blocks. There are no appropriate standards for their description, so a custom metadata scheme is required - and most of the static image gallery generators I’ve seen seem only to support metadata such as EXIF out of the box, whereas we’d need to describe the dimensions of the artefacts; their subject; their usage; notes; etc. The host has limited IT, so a database-driven site is out of the question. The metadata doesn’t need to be searchable (except by Google) but it does need to be displayed next to the images. Browsing forwards>backwards through, say, 20 pages each displaying 20 images in order is sufficient. There will be no updates, so a one-off generation of content is acceptable.  

Best,

Giles

On 23 Jul 2018, at 17:10, Tony Crockford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

On 23 Jul 2018, at 16:58, Mike Thirlwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

It wouldn’t be a hugely difficult job just to cobble together a script to read the csv and then spit out html either.

Cheers.

+1

I think a clearer definition of the context might better inform the solution.

I jumped to a conclusion!

I think we should probably ask about where the image galleries are to be shown, what sort of images are currently available, what sort of metadata and how the 'content' will be managed in the first instance.

As you say, some scripting and some html templates would do the trick too.

I've developed a few PHP driven systems that handle images, metadata and squirt out flat html (using PHP buffer).

I'm surprised to find I still have a demo site (unstyled) using Black Country Living Museum data here:

:o)

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