Oh Yes, iView MediaPro, I forgot about that one - and I second Roger's
recommendation on that.
Also, I am very interested in hearing updates on the Artesia
deployment. May I send you an email in three months or so? To see how
it went?
Jeff Evans
Digital Imaging Specialist
Princeton University Art Museum
609.258.8579
On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Roger Howard wrote:
We're in process of rolling out Artesia TEAMS, which is a high-end
digital asset management system. It's probably beyond the resources
for most small institutions.
I wonder, what functionality are you looking for? There is a huge
variety in terms of products that tend to get lumped together under
the image/gallery/asset management umbrella. Some focus on workflow -
managing a creative environment. Some are archive/preservation
oriented, while others focus on the living repository.
Do you expect to publish direct from the system to a Website, or to
provide a portal into the system, for casual visitors and researchers?
Or will it be strictly internal?
Do you want it to provide workflow, repurposing (file format
conversion, etc), and other advanced functionality, or are you mainly
looking for a system to store images and associate metadata with them?
For individuals and small workgroups I often recommend iView Media
Pro; in the same class I still recommend Extensis Portfolio, which is
capable of scaling up a bit higher (there's a server option, for
instance). I don't particularly like Canto Cumulus anymore.
I agree that Photoshop CS File Browser - and actually the VersionCue
server software also from Adobe - can be quite powerful, and it's at
least a natural environment for many folks involved in imaging - you
can create custom metadata models and custom UIs within Photoshop for
capturing the fields you want... data is stored in XML so it's easy to
integrate... but I don't typically recommend this as it takes a bit of
sophistication to implement it well (but it can be a GREAT frontend
for another system).
If you want strictly a Web gallery management tool there are literally
hundreds of free PHP/MySQL based systems. Google for "PHP image
gallery"..
MediaBeacon is nice and fairly easy to use and to plop on top of an
existing set of files. Far more advanced are tools from Artesia,
MediaBin/Interwoven. NetXPosure has some interesting products, both at
the high end and quite a bit cheaper - their low-end product looks
very nice.
Some more details on what you'd expect from this system would help me
give you a specific recommendation.
Best,
Roger Howard
Digital Media Specialist
The J. Paul Getty Trust
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