31 July 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Open Source Digital Asset Management – Part 1

Technology

I’ve looked into this before, but haven’t done nothing about it. I am starting to look back into it a bit more heavily. My only requirements are something that works the I think it should (that’s such a clear term isn’t it) and that it’s open source. If there is a commercial backing to it, even better as I to find something for my company also.

Basically my requirements are pretty open .. pun intended. I’ve started off by trying to define what all I need out of a DAM (Digital Asset Management). I think this is part of my problem, DAM’s are relatively new and there isn’t a lot out there about them. Even the term itself is open to interpretation. Personally I am looking for something that will manage personal photos, business pictures, images, documents, and movies. I am looking for it to support applications / files from not only the open source Gimp, Inkscape, Open Office, etc but also the entire Microsoft Office product line, Adobe’s products, and source files. It doesn’t necessarily have to be able to read these, just be able to handle revisions of each.

I haven’t really look in the commercial world I know Adobe as a product which can do DAM, but what it can all handle, I don’t know. Open source wise I have found a few programs. I have found Alfresco, OpenEdit, and Razuna. Alfresco will do it, but it is built to be more then just a DAM, but designed to handle workflow and processes also, the default interface is very powerful and actually intimidating. I’ve looked into, and believe it is more then I am wanting right now, and it would take a lot of work to get it to a point where I could / want to use it. I am still reading up on Open Edit and Razuna. I am opening to find some more features I want to help narrow things down.

As you might of noticed I name the post Part 1, I plan on this being an on going discussion and letting me get my thoughts out of my head and on to paper.

Do you have any ideas or thoughts about what I should be looking for or at?

7 Responses to “Open Source Digital Asset Management – Part 1”

  1. Nitai Aventaggiato [Visitor] 1 August 2008 at 12:42 Permalink

    Hi Ryan

    In about 2 week we will release Version 1.1 of Razuna. It will feature a embedded database and setup will take about 2 minutes.

    So far the reviews are all good and I think you will like it.

    Just get back to me if you need any help.

    Kind Regards,
    Nitai

  2. Julie Riley [Visitor] 4 August 2008 at 10:52 Permalink

    Hi Ryan,

    Read that you have been looking at OpenEdit DAM, always appreciate that!

    Our programmers have been busy with developing additional features for release very soon, including XMP/XML support and improved Versioning.

    Let me know if you have any questions or feel free to post in our User forum.

    Best Regards,

    Julie Riley

  3. chris [Visitor] 14 October 2008 at 13:13 Permalink

    Have you looked at Resource Space by Montala?
    I’ve just started looking at open source DAM software and they where the first one I found. Just wondering if you had any experience with it or eliminated it as a choice right off the bat?

  4. insanity5902 [Member] 14 October 2008 at 13:46 Permalink

    Actually I have, and I really liked it. It is the one we ended up implementing. Very sharp and easy to use.

  5. chris [Visitor] 15 October 2008 at 09:07 Permalink

    Thanks for the response. I’m about to try installing it on our dev server so I’m glad to hear it’s easy to use.

  6. Kray-Z [Visitor] 21 October 2008 at 10:46 Permalink

    Probably a bit late, but I found this:

    http://www.montala.net/resourcespace.php

    Great little DAM it looks like, will be installing next week.

  7. Sreenivas Kairi [Visitor] 23 June 2009 at 15:39 Permalink

    Is there any open source DAM that was written in .net platform such as c# or vb.net.

    I appreciate if any one found the similar one.

    thanks!
    Sreeni


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