[olug] Media management software

[Dan Staehr]

Would Picasa 3 work for this kind of project?

Dan Staehr

Obi-Wan wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I attend a large church that's trying to get a handle on all the A/V
> media currently stored on its network.  The I.T. guy tells me he
> currently has about 150,000 images scattered across his network in
> a very unmanageable fashion.  We've also got a new group of photographers
> in the church that are starting to produce a library of stock images
> for the church, and we'd like a way to manage off-site submissions
> and in-house searching of those as well.  I haven't heard for sure,
> but it wouldn't surprise me if they want to store audio & video files
> along with the photos.
>
> Unbeknownst to the IT guy, the church signed up for a Box.net setup,
> but that's mainly just for generic file sharing and group collaboration,
> and doesn't really address the above needs.
>
> The photographers are non-staff and would be working off site, so
> protected HTTPS access is a must.  Photos typically get tagged inside
> the JPEG file by the photographer before the file is uploaded, so the
> search functionality of this system must be able to query such tags
> (perhaps only once at upload time).  Files should also be taggable
> through the web interface.  Searching on image dimensions would also
> be helpful, because printing & web posting require vastly different
> image quality.
>
> Do any of you know of any good software (regardless of platform) that
> would help bring all of this into a manageable framework?  Would
> Drupal or something similar help?
>
>   


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