DAM Project Description
The project is coordinated by Daniel Thomas, dam@dpool.net,
and produced by René Fritz, r.fritz@colorcube.de.
What is a Digital Asset Management System?
A DAM system is a tool to handle digital content like images, text, files, ...
The media files can be described with meta information. Such information can describe the content (description, keywords, location), provide technical data (image size) or copyright information for example.
All these information can be used to handle, find and categorize the media files.
Mediabase
Mediabase is the integrated solution of a DAM system for TYPO3. Mediabase is similar to the File module integrated into the TYPO3 backend as a main module. Mediabase can replace the File module but can be used in parallel also.
Mediabase don't use a new storage type for files. The files are stored into the file system as before.
Frontend applications can be build on top of Mediabase. Examples are image gallery.
Development
General status: in production, still things to do. Open sub projects.
Features that need to be implemented before public release:
- further DAM core development and cleanup
- cleanup Indexing Submodule
- proper integration into TYPO3 (handle moved and deleted files, ...)
- integration into element browser
- search function
- finish new file module with indexing support
Further sponsorship is needed to finish these things.
Features (in production)
Media>Indexing
Status: Functional Betaversion
The indexing module can index a bunch of files or folders with subfolders (in contrast to the file module which will index single files after upload).
Features:
- mass indexing of files and folder
- apply rules while indexing (eg. assign category from folder name)
- preset meta data before indexing
- set preset meta data not to be overwritten while indexing
- save index setup as preset
Special feature: Indexing rules can be extended by own extension. Let's say your file names have a special format which make it easy to categorize the files. This can be processed by an own indexing rule.
Media>List
Status: Functional Betaversion
This is the module where you search and edit your media by categories or other meta data.
The media files will be found by rules. Such a rule can be: "Show me all files of the category 'Press' which are text content files but not PDF". This can be done easily by clicking on the + = - icons in the navigation frame. Your selection can be saved for later use. Not the found files will be saved (see lightbox module) but the selection rules.
Features:
- searching by rules
- saved selections (rules) for later use
- editing of meta data
- editing the category tree
Special features: Own category trees can be supplied by extensions. If you need more or custom categorizations than the standard categories, you can do that. Your own category tree shown up in the navigation frame below the standard category tree.
Media>List>Thumbnail
Status: Functional Betaversion
Similar to the Media>List>List module you can use this module. The difference is that bigger thumbnails are shown.
Media>List>Selection
Status: Functional Betaversion
The current selection can be viewed and modified here.
Here you can see that rules are used to create a selection. From the selection you can remove single files.
Media>List>Process
Status: Functional Betaversion
Your current selection can be batch processed with this module. You can use this to enrich already indexed files with new meta data.
Features:
- batch processing of the current selection
- overwrite meta data of your selected files
- append meta data: eg. add a keyword or add a category to your files
Special feature: Batch processing fields can be extended by own extension.
Media>File
Status: Functional Betaversion (partial)
The file module will replace the old file module. It will be extended with automatic indexing and the possibility to edit meta data after upload.
