I am looking for a Linux application that I can use as an image library that supports adding metadata to images, such as keywords, copyright info, location info (geotagging, long/lat), photographers name, etc. I work for a non-profit and we use numerous images on our website, in publications, etc. and I am looking for a way to more efficiently find relevant images with their associated information.

I prefer something not web based. Any thoughts on what is out there?

Thanks

DigiKam?

+1 for DigiKam

I never even considered DigiKam. I just installed it and it seems to be quite impressive. I was looking at F-Spot but DigiKam seems to have more of what I'm looking for. Thanks for the tip. I'll try to find some how-to's or some other documentation and start playing with it.

I am noticing something that is happening with both DigiKam and F-Spot. I originally created my albums with Picasa and when I look at the images with either DigiKam or F-Spot it has them sorted into albums based on years; 1998, 1999, 2000, all the way to 2009. Where is it getting this information? Some of the images that are in the 1998 album were simply not taken in 1998, they were taken well past that.

I also see that DigiKam and F-Spot make copies of the images and places them in a different directory whereas Picasa did not make copies of the images, it seems to have simply added the metadata to the image where it resided. In doing so, when either DigiKam or F-Spot access the old set of images it read the metadata that Picasa had created. Is there any way to have DigiKam (I am leaning toward that over F-Spot) NOT copy to a separate location but to do as Picasa did? Might that not be the best way to do it?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks.