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Does alfresco support digital asset management?

dynamolalit — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:05:39 GMT

Hi,I am investigating alfresco 3.3. I want to know if alfresco supports Digital Asset Management in this release. If yes, how to use it, any download, amp etc?

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

mikeh — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:32:24 GMT

DAM is a very broad topic. What specifics are you looking for?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

dynamolalit — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:16:17 GMT

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reply. I will be obliged if you can tell me what all features alfresco supports in 3.3 for DAM. Also i am interested in media management.

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

mrogers — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:08:41 GMT

We can't answer such a general question, except by saying "yes".

What in particular are you looking to do?

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

mattpenner — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:10:44 GMT

I am interested in this as well. We have about 2TB of media between videos, pictures and audio. This is a collection that spans the last 7 years and our current system just isn't working. The biggest complaint is it is limited to a single workstation and database. We need something that can be accessed/managed from the network and preferably online as well. We would like the option to tag media in different ways, such as by date, location, event, subjects in the media and media type. We would like to be able to search for media based on any one of these, such as all media containing a particular subject in a date range, or all media at one event that has two subjects together, etc. Our editors are largely off-site so if they could upload media and tag it from anywhere that would be great. It is possible to upload back in the office and then organize it remotely as well.

Our current system holds this all in a SQL-lite database that we can easily get data out of in any format we should need. If we could somehow import this into Alfresco that would be great.

It would also be great if Alfresco itself (or through some 3rd party integration) be able to write tags back to the media, such as photos. That way they would be available when uploading to various public sharing sites such as Flickr.

I'm sure Alfresco can do this, I'm just not sure where to start. Are there any examples of this being done that we could look at? Any chance of some great articles or sites showing how we might set this up? I'm sure Alfresco doesn't really care what it is storing. This is probably a standard media management project of ours.

Thank you for any and all suggestions!

Take care,
Matt Penner

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

jlcheng — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:17:50 GMT

Has anyone from Alfresco been able to look into this?

I can enumerate some of the digital asset management features I am interested in:

Edit metadata in images

Search images by metadata

Batch upload images

Image gallery

Work flow for managing images

Automatically transform approved images into different sizes and format (e.g., upload one image and have it optimized for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and Droid X)

Metadata edit and search for video

Batch operations on video

Automated transcoding of video

Not that I am looking for Alfresco to do everything, but I would like to hear which of these features are currently being used with Alfresco?

Edit - There is an old thread http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8121&hilit=digital+asset+management on managing images (no management of videos) using Alfresco and ImageMagick. I'd like to hear if Alfresco has improved on this suggestion.

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

heiko_robert — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:15:15 GMT

Hi,
DAM & MAM is a topic we are working on a module for images for professionals but not (yet) videos. Alfresco has some nice base functionallity for developers in the repository we can use for our module (tagging, rendition service, transformation service, associations), but the end user features you describe are not part of any existing and available module I know of.
If you're looking for a Open Source MAM/DAM similar to Alfresco, have you seen/evaluated razuna? In our case we decided not to go with razuna because we like the file protocol access in Alfresco and invested some time to build some use cases on top. But we're allways interested in good ideas, alternatives, models …
Regards
Heiko

Re: Does alfresco support digital asset management?

jlcheng — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:11:01 GMT

Hi Robert,

I have not looked into Razuna but I will. I am evaluating a list of CRMs for a client and image management will be a big plus. Video management will be a godsend but realistically I only expect to find them in very specialized DAM products.

Thanks for the tip!