Tagging large number of files?

[msummers57]

I'm trying to organize the late wife's digital photos, there are thousands of them so I'm trying to figure-out a way to do this relatively efficiently.

My current thinking is add date, location, and subject(s) (possibly a list) to a spreadsheet, dump that to exiftool compliant json, and then input that exiftool. What I want to avoid is mousing around in a gui exif editor- I'm a bash/vim kind of guy.

Am I on the right track with this? Is there a better way? Examples of massaging large number of files?

I'll be more than happy to share this back when I'm done.

Thanks in advance.

[Phil Harvey]

Sounds reasonable, but I would probably use CSV instead of JSON.  See FAQ26 for details on the formatting of the input file and example commands.

- Phil