Does Gallery meet our requirements?
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Joined: 2006-02-15
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Posted: Wed, 2006-02-15 18:34
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I'm not the type of person who usually goes around looking for products because I'm just a sysadmin, but every day it looks like Security is going to axe our decision to go with Canto's Cumulus. Good riddance, I say. But anyway, another department is looking into a similar solution and I'd like to be the one to provide it to them, without having to run around through SRs and crap. ANYWAY, from the initial request document I found for the current project, it looks like Gallery can do everything they wanted to acheive with Cumulus, but I do have a couple of questions... 1. What exactly does Gallery do with movies? I installed Gallery for another site but I don't control the server and I couldn't install ffmpeg, nor upload any movies really. But here at work, they have movies... what can Gallery do with them? 2. We, unfortunately, have a lot of PowerPoint files. I admit, I haven't read Gallery's documentation today because I'm swamped with work, but does Gallery have any functionality with PowerPoint? 3. Metadata metadata metadata... if someone searches for 'planes' they'll find tagged pictures, right? 4. I know Gallery can save different resolutions (640x480, 800x600, etc), but one of the questions was for different DPIs; eg, 300, 1500, and 72. Does Gallery have a mode for handling this? If you guys don't think Gallery is right for me, can someone point me in the direction of a FOSS project that handles the situations we'll encounter? Thanks so much, in advance!! |
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Gallery 2 is not (yet) a digital asset management system. it has some DAM related features, but by far not all the features a real DAM solution would offer.
but G2 has a lot of other features too, unrelated to DAM.
to your questions.
1. whether the ffmpeg module is active or not, you can add / upload movies to g2 anyway. maybe you need to configure your php upload limits correctly to get it working for you. users can download these movies and you can add descriptions, titles, keywords, etc. etc.
if ffmpeg is active, g2 generates thumbnails for movies and it detects the movie size automatically.
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Modules:ffmpeg
2. you can add any file type to g2, powerpoint too. but you won't get thumbnails or so for ppt files, they are just downloadable documents. as with all items in g2, you get all item related features.
3. g2 has keywords and you can add the keyword "planes" to an item. and you can search and you'll find the item. but this area of g2 is a little weak right now.
4. you mean a settings to specify the DPI a specfic resize should have? nope. but i'd guess that if your original has 300 DPI that the resizes will have 300 DPI too.
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/G1-G2_Comparison#Feature_Chart
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Features#Supported_MIME_Types
i don't know any FOSS DAM solution. but there are other commercial DAM solutions.
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Thanks for the detailed and helpful response! G2 still looks appealing to me and I might set up a demo to show to our customer to see what he thinks.
For DPI, I meant something like that. If there's an image that's 5"x7" in 300 dpi, I guess they want it to be 5"x7" and 72dpi if they choose the lower pixel depth (or whatever). I dunno... seems to me the kind of people who know what DPI even means and has the desire to print it in a brochure or put it on a website should have Photoshop (or similar) to know what needs to be done.
Anyway, thanks again!