Digital Asset Management (DAM) with Gallery2
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targatop
Joined: 2005-12-09
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Posted: Fri, 2005-12-09 23:17
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Does anybody use Gallery2 as a DAM? I am specifically concerned with using Gallery2 to distribute photos to news desks in Europe. The process is very simple, but unique. Once an image is uploaded to a Gallery2 folder, it will then need to be sent via FTP from the server to the client's FTP servers worldwide. Has anybody heard of Gallery2 being used in this manner? We would still want a web-based gallery, but some clients subscribe to the service and will need immediate access to the images on their local FTP servers. Photographers will be working world-wide and uploading images to various folders immediately after post-processing. The goal is to get them to upload only once, and have the server initiate the other FTP connections. We've thought about CRON jobs, but this must be administered by everyday users, and we want to make sure that there are no partial files uploaded. Please advise. We are also evaluating http://www.netxposure.com which does this natively. It is a very common practice in the photographer/newsroom/advertising business. Thanks so much in advance! |
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2-3 weeks old forum topic just on the next page:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/40353
@ftp:
no, not to my knowledge.
but g2 is modular. you could create a module that listens on GalleryEntity::save events and whenever a new file is added, you can upload it to other sites via ftp.
also, why not just notify the photographers via email that there's a new file?
or an RSS feed to keep them up to date. why ftp upload to other sites? a bandwidth issue?
this image portal thing looks nice. it has a few things that we don't have (g2 isn't as good for DAM as this tool is, first, G2 is in the first place a photo album management / presentation application).
e.g. g2 has no versioning for its items, not yet. also, g2 doesn't have a adobe server in the background, it just has imagemagick / netpbm / ffmpeg / dcraw / gd as toolkits.
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Thanks for the information! Automatic FTP is required, because that is the way the industry does business unfortunately. The newspaper editors are too busy and too set in their ways to change. The photographers upload their edited images, but the end user is print publications throughout Europe.
I have taken the demo, and the other site is very nice. However, it is very expensive. I'm trying to see if it's cheaper to have a gallery module developed (which I'm sure it is).
Do you know of a place where I could recruit quality developers to develop such a module? I can pay them.
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we have a marketplace forum here. we opened it a month ago or so and it's all user to user relations, the gallery team doesn't know the 3rd party developers or the quality of their work. the gallery team itself is very busy developing g2.
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Thanks valiant!