GNU Photo Archiving software?

jonr asks: "After I got my Olympus E-100RS camera, I have been enjoying photography again. I now take on average dozens photos a day. Now the problem is ever growing photo collection. I found an excellent archiving software, IMatch but I'm looking for something similar to run under Linux. Folders and sub-folders are are just not cutting it. IMatch allows me to put my photos in a category tree, e.g. a photo of my dog could be placed in Family/Pets and Animals/Dogs. It also has off-line archiving, a must have for growing collection. Now does anybody know of a tool or a collection of tools for this?"

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[n8willis]

*sigh* Yet another Ask Slashdot where "How do I do X?" gets greeted with a slew of non-answers refusing to even consider the question at hand. "You don't need to do that!" "I've never done it, but why would anyone need to?" "Don't. Do something else!"

Well, here are some projects that do do what you want, in one way or another.

• photoseek.sourceforge.net
  
• gpc.sourceforge.net
  
• www.menalto.com/projects/gallery
  
• photoarch.sourceforge.net
  
• photo.sourceforge.net
  
• liw.iki.fi/liw/lodju
  
• www.seindal.dk/rene/software/sights

Photoseek, Lodju and GPC are the only ones that are not designed to be web-interface only. Several of the numerous "web gallery" packages have good indexing capabilities, but are primarily geared at presentation, not cataloging.

The non-Web-gallery programs are all relatively young-in-the-lifecycle projects. Although GPC seems to be the furthest along, my initial experience with Photoseek was better -- but it has been so long since a release that I'm not sure how healthy development is.

Don't listen to anybody who suggests that you do it all by hand with flat files. They've never tried.

Nate