Is anybody out there a picture collector? As in building collections of pics shot by other people - events, celebrities, nature, etc - from the forums, from picture agencies, other sources?
I am fishing for ideas here because I can't seem to win against this one. I would aim mainly for having info in fields like People, Events, Date, Places. In the most simple format - People is one name, group shots are not considered for this; Date can be in any possible format as long as it translates into month-day-year in any form.
Problem: there is no cohesion. There are no 2 sources that will have - consistently - same EXIF/IPTC information in the same place, or a file naming scheme that would allow a Filename to tags conversion. Every forum is different, so are the agencies, and that is when the filenames don't get bastardized completely by various image hosts and the likes.
Do you have any digital workflow either from within or around MC, that will help at any degree with this problem? Automatic tools renamers upon downloading, mind-reading application (hehe!), regex, dealing with picture tags a certain way in MC, anything...!? Any ideas that could alleviate the problem of proper naming / proper tags for pics. I'm talking numbers of pics in 5 digits but would gladly settle for small improvements, in small increments.
