Photoscope

DIY Photo Management software written in golang, targetted at managing larger collections of photos.

Provides the back end as REST service in Golang and the front-end as an HTML application.

Goals

• self-contained photo-indexing service capable of handling large collections (>100k images)
• no dependency on external cloud services, all running locally or self-hosted services
• able to run on NAS consumer hardware (e.g. Synology 2xx series)
• native network (REST) API to access all functions

Roadmap

Current Phase: early prototypes

• basic photo indexing capabilities:
  • import photos
    • webdav - DONE
    • directory - DONE
  • extract time and location meta-data - DONE
  • reverse geo-code location - DONE
  • index by time - DONE
  • index by location - Needs rework, uses OSM does not work anymore
• HTML browser
  • browse index - DONE
    • thumbs not taking rotation into account
  • view photos
  • show image fullscreen in frontend - DONE

TODOS:

• read back using webdav does not work

Next Phase: more advanced indexing

• temporal event splitting (based on https://www.fxpal.com/publications/temporal-event-clustering-for-digital-photo-collections-2.pdf)
• duplicate detection

Further away:

• face recognition and indexing
• messaging service integration (e.g. Telegram auto-index bot)

Out of scope

• photo editing