Gallery 2 for DAM

ElgertS

Joined: 2003-10-16
Posts: 50
Posted: Sun, 2005-11-20 15:55

I have not found a thread discussing using Gallery 2 for us as a Digital Asset Management system. I have used Gallery 1 for several years on various website to great success and would like to fully take advantage of the capabilities of G2 especially as it relates to DAM.

If anyone has been using G2 for DAM purposes or are aware of modular enhancements that directly benefit using G2 for DAM I would love to hear more about them.

Some DAM related questions:

1. What file types generate thumbs? (I love the ability to attach thumbs to files that don't generate them.

2. Can G2 to bet to monitor directories on a server and routinely reference or import any new/modified files that occur on those directories?
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2005-11-20 16:52

1. we can add everything that is supported by our current toolkits and you can add your own toolkit too, so if there's a binary/way to generate thumbs / resizes / webviewable images from another source, then it can be added to g2.
currently:
- imagemagick: gif, jpg, jpeg 2000, png, tiff, svg, bmp, pdf, eps, psd, pcd, wmf
- netpbm: jpeg, gif, png, tiff, bmp, pnm,
- gd: gifm jpeg, png, wbmp, xpm, xbm
- ffmpeg: mpeg, asf, avi, mov, wmv (containers), and various codecs (mpeg2, mpeg4 (incl. h264), wmv, quicktime, ... whatever ffmpeg supports)
- dcraw: various raw formats (nikon, canon, ...)

i guess that's it. all other filetypes can be added to g2 and you can upload a seprate thumbnail if you wish, but g2 is unable to generate thumbnails or web-viewable versions for other filetypes than the listed ones. but again: this list can be extended easily; by a module or by adding another mimetype to our existing toolkits.
 
kreon

Joined: 2005-11-28
Posts: 1
Posted: Tue, 2005-11-29 14:46

Hi, I also want to use G2 as a kind of DAM.
I was searching for a tool to manage images in an intranet by using a browser - and found G2.
I know that G2 is a tool for website-galleries, but the features and the construction of G2 are great.

Would you think, G2 could manage round about 80000 images, if we build a new "Album-Module" (..if it's possible to create a kind of tree structure)?

I installed G2 yesterday - so I don't know much about it. But if anyone says "80000 images could be possible".. ;-)
OK, we would also need some other modules, but G2 seems to be extensible - and the modules would be usefull for others, too.
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Tue, 2005-11-29 17:11

- care2.org uses g2 with over a million images
- g2 already supports a "very large" (it's not infinite, but really large) number of nested albums. so i don't know what your "albums module" would do
- web / intranet, there's no difference for g2. as long as it runs on a webserver...
- @large numbers of albums: the only real problem we found out very recently is that a large number of useralbums (a special module for g2) will cause really bad performance. we're working on improving that. but if you don't use module "useralbums" and have like 500/1000 useralbums, then it's not an issue
 
ElgertS

Joined: 2003-10-16
Posts: 50
Posted: Tue, 2006-07-04 22:52

I am finding Gallery to be quite potent for use as a DAM solution. Here are a few of my short wish list items:

1. email notification to admins of new file uploads
2. Gallery remote upload only to user's album
 
Lee Bowser

Joined: 2006-07-05
Posts: 8
Posted: Tue, 2006-08-29 15:17
Quote:
Would you think, G2 could manage round about 80000 images, if we build a new "Album-Module" (..if it's possible to create a kind of tree structure)?

I already run ALOT of images through this, think it can only improve more in the future. Gallery for president! ;)