Digital Finds

Photographic Metadata Management for the Openmoko Platform

Luca Bianconi recently left the Oxford office of OA after three months here working on some really cool things for us. One of his projects was to produce an application based upon the ExifTool library that could be used by our archives department to tag and manage digital photos as we move away from analogue methods. Luca writes about the software here.

We talked about how cool it might be to use this application on the FreeRunner in a similar vein to the Total Open Station application that Luca originally helped to write and then helped to get running mobile'ly; again, by taking advantage of the USB host mode provided by the FreeRunner, we would allow archaeologists to manipulate digital data in the field. By utilising the GPS included within the FreeRunner we can geotag all the photos taken by site staff; send these back to the office and employ some webmapping / GeoRSS magic and you've got a very exciting tool.

The code is available from the project's Launchpad entry: https://launchpad.net/mpm and is part of the Open Archaeology initiative: http://openarchaeology.net.

Posted at 11:46PM Jun 14, 2008 by Joseph Reeves in OLPA  |  Comments[0]