Need guidance on building a family archive

Greetings all,

I am preparing to embark on a huge (for me) project to scan/digitize/preserve family pictures from a bunch of different folks. Current plan is to use Capture One to manage the archive in a dedicated catalog with its own process recipes, etc etc.

I've been reading up on the metadata and keyword features of Capture One and am starting to get the hang of it.

It occurred to me that I don't want other family members to have to buy capture one to look at and browse the archives. I need to produce the family archive in a way that is (somewhat) universally consumable. It could live on a USB drive or an online storage service like Google Drive or OneDrive, etc.

That means I'm going to have to export stuff out of the catalog and into some sort of external location. Fine I can do that. I am somewhat familiar with process recipes, etc.

So I could export the family archive into some destination USB drive and all the image files would be there with all of that nice metadata baked into the file.

Problem is, the metadata is not super easy to get to, especially for 90 year old grandma Smith.

So what I want is some sort of tool to look at all the image files in a folder and build some local file html pages that make it easy to browse through all the image files in the directory and display all that awesome metadata in the html page along with the picture.

Or something. Something like that. Capture One's "export as contact sheet" is kinda sort in the ballpark but it creates reduced sized images and does not (afaik) display the image metadata.

Anyone know of any third party tools that will scan picture files and build a local html filesite to browse the images? There's got to be some products out there that will do this. But I thought I'd ask ths community before i start doing random google searches.

Any guidance appreciated!

Calvin Powers

Väinö Louekari

7. Januar 2021 19:30

Hello

IrfanView ( a lightweight and free viewer) seems to be able to create HTML-pages from images, maybe You will want to look at it: https://www.irfanview.com/

7. Januar 2021 19:52

Thanks you Väinö Louekari. I will investigate it.

8. Januar 2021 15:14

I think I found a solution:

https://thumbsup.github.io/

I have not tried it yet, but reading through the documentation, this seems to be exactly what I am looking for.

Frank Mantek

14. Januar 2021 19:47

If you want to invest more time and create more content, there is of course the ever present wordpress. Creating galleries there with FooGallery, tagging them etc is work, but rather straightforward.

If it is just about pictures, and you don't mind spending a bit of cash, i could recommend squarespace. Takes all the hazzle away, works on mobile, nice templates etc.

It's of course a matter of where you want to host how much - what amount of data are we talking?

Frank

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