A few weeks back I did a Sharepoint demo for a customer and showed them the Picture Library features. I hadn't really used them before so it was kind of fun to learn about them at the same time as the customer. But one downside was that Sharepoint wasn't pulling the EXIF information out of the jpeg...stuff like when the picture was taken, what the shutter speed was, etc. But when you add a document to any document library, an event is triggered so you can develop an add-on that will pull the EXIF data out of the image, then put the info into a series of fields in the Doc Library. So I wrote an event handler that did this. Pretty cool I thought. Took a while to figure out a couple of things, but it was a fun exercise. I'll clean it up a bit and post it here.
But then I found a partner product that does that and a whole lot more. Scene7 has an addon for Sharepoint that turns it into a complete Image Management platform. Its very cool, and I intend to include it in most of my future demos. The tool comes from the same people who wrote DeBabelizer. It looks like they also have a standalone image management tool, but this tool give you a way to further leverage an investment in Sharepoint.
Seeing this and other 3rd party addons for Sharepoint make this a pretty exciting product.
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