I am creating a site for a gallery space, and I'm really stuck on the "right" way to handle images from past shows.
The image module and its gallery functionality create almost all of what we want... a list of exhibitions; an overview of each exhibit; thumbnails of images organized by exhibition.
We want to be able to create more information about exhibitions in the gallery, though. We have a free tagging vocabulary for artists and we'd like to use those on exhibitions. That is just one example.
We did create a CCK type called "exhibition" that does what we want, and I'm trying to sort out the smartest way to merge these two functionalities: the exhibition node and the image gallery for that exhibition. Just adding the image gallery taxonomy term to the exhibition content type doesn't seem to help, right off the bat.
If I reconstruct the URL, I can create the beginnings of what I want:
/taxonomy/term/36
a list of teasers for all content in that term, while /image/tid/36
displays a nicely formatted list of thumbnails.
It is seeming like the most logical path to take will be this:
* use image galleries to group images together
* use taxonomy (and the Image Gallery vocabulary) to connect images and exhibitions