By ShutterFreak on

I have a use case where I want to "push" media content online. This media content consists of media files and associated descriptions, like photographs and metadata (a description, EXIF data, IPTC data, maybe tags and keywords...).

What I want to do, is find a way to "push" this content to my Drupal site in such a way that the media file and the associated descriptions are linked. For example, an ‘image’ node would be created, the image description would be part of the content, and the photo itself would be attached to the node.

Is there a simple way of realizing this with Drupal? Could I for example use an existing API (XML RPC, ...) for this?

Regards,
Olivier

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

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neomenlo commented

I think that you're thinking of a couple different things.
Upload images: http://drupal.org/project/image
Get Exif date from those images: http://drupal.org/project/exif

I believe that is exactly what you are looking for and all you have to do is install those two modules. I'm not sure what you're trying to do with the different protocols, but this will allow you to upload it without having to use FTP, if that is what you're wanting.

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ShutterFreak commented

Thanks for your reply!

What I am trying to do, is use an external application to prepare the media and metadata I want to upload to Drupal. More precisely am I using JAlbum for processing my media files. I'd like to use JAlbum's excellent batch metadata extraction & media manipulation features and produce content for my Drupal site with it. In principle I can even write a wrapper application that runs JAlbum in the way I want :-)

I don't dismiss the option of writing a custom Drupal module for this.