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
