So all of our (small, young) newsroom’s photos are sitting in a bunch of folders on Dropbox. They’re also in WordPress, where they have a bit of metadata associated with them (though not a whole lot.)

It would seem prudent to find some means of properly storing – and tagging – what we’ve got, to make it easier to find and use photos in the future.

What software do people use for this?

Ideally, the solution would have as few steps and as possible we would only need to enter metadata once.

For example, we could drop photos into the program, tag them efficiently, and then easily push the photos and their metadata to WordPress.

We’d like to the following metadata: date, time, caption, shooter, location (not necessarily GPS since we don’t currently capture that data), people, maybe events and organizations.

The first two are logged automatically, captions are embedded in the photo’s metadata and then pulled into the WordPress database on upload, the rest are not currently being stored anywhere.