I can speak for EnterMedia, after all, I work there! EnterMedia points to digital files, whether they reside on another server, hard drive, in the 'cloud', etc. Like you stated, it uses a filepath, you do not have to move or copy images. EnterMedia will also catalog your images the way you have them sorted on your drives. You won't lose filepaths of files, metadata or structure.
http://entermediasoftware.com Thanks! Julie Riley On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Rothman, Steve <srothman at fas.harvard.edu>wrote: > <<If you're at all interested preserving your images and making sure you > don't have multiple copies of the same image in your directories (albeit in > different sizes), what you probably want is a digital asset management > system. There are a number of them on the market, and some pretty decent > open source alternatives. Since it seems like your needs are fairly modest, > something like Razuna, DSpace, EnterMedia, or ResourceSpace would work > well>> > > This wasn't a concern of the OP, but I'm curious: Of these open source > products, would any of them would work well in a situation where the image > files are on an independent server with its own filesystem, not held within > the database or as part of the database server? In other words, along with > whatever metadata is in the DAM it would have to track a filepath for each > image, rather than actually "having" a copy of the image? > > > -Steve, Peabody Museum, Cambridge Massachusetts USA > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
