Hi Don. I guess this is all down to what DAM you use. We have a client that uses Xinet and so we faced the exact same problem you have. We had to get an extension written that integrates with the Xinet Connector API. It was a major (and expensive) chunk of work! It allows links to assets stored in Xinet to be published to a SMW instance. Had to integrate the security as well which was fun.
It is a commercial DAM you are using or home grown? Regards Neill. On 30/11/10 20:39, don undeen wrote: > Hi all, > I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience integrating their > wiki installation with an existing Digitial Asset Management system? > > At my institution, we've got a massive DAM with millions of images. > Obviously we really don't want to import/copy any images into the wiki. > > However, some of the more useful features of image handling in the wiki, > such as the RichMedia tool, WYSIWYG , the image page, etc, all depend on > an image being uploaded to the wiki. > > Currently, when I want to show an image from the DAM in the wiki, I just > reference the full URL in the wiki text. > But that doesn't play nice with the WYSIWYG editor. > > I've described this problem previously as "Being able to use > externally-referenced images in [[Image tags," but haven't heard any > solutions yet. > > But maybe if I describe it as "DAM Integration" the importance of this > feature will seem more apparent, or a different kind of solution will > present itself? Because I could imagine some sort of proxy could be used > to do DAM integration, and you still wouldn't need to support "External > URLs" in [[Image tags. > > Seems like someone out there must be dealing with this issue. Anyone? > > > Cheers, > Don Undeen > Metropolitan Museum of Art > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
