Hello All,
http://www.free-jpeg-images.com is a new stock photo website that provides free jpeg images to download. The usage of the images is in line with CC 2.5 license. The particularity of the website is the rich images data information which is actually extracted from the metadata of the original jpegs.
The import process is realized by creating a node for every image and adding the image metadata into separate CCK field. In the beginning I planned to use the imagefield import module, but quickly found out that it enabled to import title and description fields only, which was not enough. Therefore, I created a custom module that created nodes and imported all needed metadata such as location, country, city, author, keywords, size etc ... .
During the import process, keywords are integrated as Drupal taxonomy tags. This enables to use the full potential of Taxonomy.
In addition, another simple custom module was created in order to generate the left side list of image categories. Basically, the module scans all node's city and country CCK fields in order to create a list. This operation is run only when new images are imported.
Contributed module used are: CCK fields, views, imagecache, pathauto, captcha, webforms and XML sitemap. The core taxonomy and search module where activated.