jamesterabond (0)
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Registered: Jun 27, '14
Location: Ecuador
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I'm a pretty "compulsive" collector, and have been at it for at least 10 years. In that time I have been a member of numerous paysites, adding to my collection all the time.
I used to use folders, until I reached about 0.5Mio images, at which time I decided I'd need something more robust. Folders don't allow you to cross-reference (e.g. for images with several models), and you can't (easily) link video, of which I have also amassed a serious quantity over the years.
So I set out designing my own collection manager application. I use embedded EXIF metadata tags inside the .jpg files which I insert using exiv2 (exiv2.org), and this metadata is then indexed along with filename, path and md5 hash in Solr (lucene.apache.org/solr/). Finally I built a web frontend using PHP, Symfony (symfony.com) and Twitter bootstrap (getbootstrap.com)
I started out on all this about 3-4 years ago, and it works really well (for me at least). The collection now contains 3.7Mio images and it usually takes me about 3-4 seconds to find the model and/or set I'm looking for, and its associated videos.
So it's a bit of work to set it all up and develop the missing pieces, but it is definitely worth it if you have an ever-growing collection like me...
Hope this inspires someone  Edited by Staff on Jun 27, 2014, 06:16pm (Khan: removed direct links)
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