Large Image Collections

Collectors: How do you manage your collections once you can no longer readily find the files you need?

I just passed 50,000 not too long ago, and I started looking into my options.

>Hydrus Network
I'm leaning towards it, but it really sucks that it duplicates your entire collection and wastes twice the hard drive space. Also I don't like how you can't open images in HoneyView or any external program; you're essentially limited to the program to view images. You also give up folders forever, so I can't go find it if I want to reference it somewhere.

>Just keep sorting in folders
This is a huge pain in the ass for big collections. I can never find a file I'm thinking of if I need it.

>Some tagging software
I have no idea where to go on this one. Do any of you do tagging? I want to do something like this, just keep all of my images in one giant folder and tag them all for easy reference.

What do you guys do? How do you manage your collections?

I think the real question is why are you data hoarding?

Autism

git-annex my dude

>I just passed 50,000

How many reaction images do you really need?

So how does this solve the problem of being able to easily retrieve any file you're thinking of? Or what if you just wanted to look at all files that had to do with, say, Pepe?

somewhere over 9000

Tagging.

I used ExitTool and Dublin Core set. I now find images under 3 seconds after thinking of it.

I use a 3rd party image viewer, but it's irrelevant. You can use File Exporer or whatever else you want.

This is on a collection of roughly 600,000 images. Took me 3 months to organize. Additionally, I also have personal photos tagged but also Geo-tagged with the same tool. You can also tag mp3s with ExifTool, but you can't embed artwork (so I stick with Mp3Tag.

Single, are you?

Me.

Note that I also use ExifTool GUI as a front end and that there is a little bit of a learning curve. But once you get it: you'll be getting things tagged very quickly.

Just bc I'm bored, here's my process for tagging mp3s/flax/wav:

1. If in wav, verify spectrum and create ALAC copy. If in FLAC, verify spectrum and transcode to ALAC.

2. Remove any/all tags in their entirety. Find reputable artist source and release source, and tag with the following:

Artist
Album
Title
Track Number
Length
Year
Producer
Composer
Catalogue #
Label

...verify those are the only tags present, and that they are accurate.

3. Find highest quality album art from 1st party source or retailer, and open in Photoshop. Album Art is re-sized to 1000x1000 and compression is removed, though the file is ultimately saved in JPEG former. Image is then opened in ExifTool and stripped of any irrelevant metadata. In some cases artist or photographer is kept.

4. Artwork is embedded into each MP3 and file is titled: 001-title.mp4 or whatever.

5. Everything is verified again and one copy is sent to AWS while a local copy is placed on to the server.

The universe is back in balance.

You could've just said yes.

I'm a chick so it's really not difficult to be satisfied. And men of my country (Japan) are usually desperate like me.

...

>he does rename his images!

laughing_kora-062.png

i meant *doesn't*

>tfw no kawaii audio autist gf

Thanks, I just downloaded this and I'm playing around with it on a folder that I've been dumping images into to sort later.

So I'm reading through the documentation, but I can't find how to assign custom metadata tags at all. It seems like you can only set predefined tags? How do you tag stuff to retrieve it later

Oh, you mentioned you were using exiftool GUI. This looks a lot more friendly.

I deleted them all when I got a job and moved out.

i would advise you to follow a set a metadata tags, such that future images you download are limited to a set of tags.

Basically, only you use group of tags and nothing else when tagging your images.

The set that i use is called the Dublin Core.

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>Dublin Core
I think I understand. But I think we're talking about different things when referring to "tags". I think you mean classic metadata, like type, author, etc. What I mean is, in the pic related I would want to "tag" this image with descriptors such as "rhinocerous", "nature", "high-res", maybe "wallpaper". I'm not sure how following a metadata standard like the Dublin Core gets you there.

i have 500k of images of n formats.
i organization is split into pastes, each with a specific format. i got no time to rename and organize per categories.

If english isn't your first language, could you restate that in your native language and I'll try to figure it out with google translate.

Ok, sorry about that, just got a new keyboard yesterday ,still getting used to keyboard, i am Portuguese, and my knowledge of English is average.
Here is the correction:
i have 500000 images of diferent formats.
my type of organization is to split the images into folders, each one with a specific format(ico, jpg, tiff, png,etc...).
I got no time to rename and organize into categories.

Oh gotcha. Yeah the only problem is when you need to find "that one pepe that was really cool", but your pepe folder has 3,000 pepes in it.

Rhinoceros would be a tag, but it would have an additional tag of animal.

Is it a rare Pepe?

Then "Rare Pepe."

Is it a racist Pepe?

Then "Racist" "Pepe" and perhaps "Political" but also "Illustration" and maybe the author or just "Sup Forums". Additionally, "Internet Culture."

In my time, since I frequent so many different anonymous image boards and communities, I just tag it "Author:Anonymous"

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