Date: 01/07/08 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, xml, database

I'm trying to create a user-friendly searchable image catalog. Think gettyimages.com, only not as pretty or robust. This is a B2B product only. My company has thousands of images, and we need to get them to creative agencies in the form of searchable galleries and contact sheets.

I'm using Mediapro to catalog and tag images. It makes nice, neat catalogs I can tag, export as contact sheets, etc. It also exports a *Very* simple HTML gallery. An index page, thumbnails, etc. it is not searchable and no meta data is attached to any of the images.

Mediapro also creates .xml files, which DOES have the meta data.

So I have an HTML gallery, an .xml file....how easy/hard would it be to tie these together into a searchable database, ala Getty? It is possible?

TIA

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/457145.html