Hi,
When we run our Managing digital media collections workshop we use the
open-source http://omeka.org/ which is a pretty good tool to test and use
for showing your team. It can scale and may be good as 'the solution' or at
least as a starter.
Happy DAMing
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Christopher Power <
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> Hi Strephon,
>
> Have you spoken with the folks at the Archaeological Data Service in York?
> They have lots of facilities in place for picture hosting.
>
> I'm not sure about costs or anything like that, but I could pass you names
> of people if that would be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> On 14 May 2013, at 12:28, Strephon Duckering <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I have query about Data Asset Management Systems for images.
> >
> > I work for a commercial archaeological company (50->100 employees) and I
> am charged, along with our IT specialist Graham Sherwood, to look for a
> system that will open up our digital photo server to our office based staff
> of about 35 employees. At the moment we just store photos on a backed up
> server, in folders, according to which archaeological project or site that
> they belong to. It’s a linear system that is difficult to search unless you
> already know where to find what you’re looking for. What we would like is
> an accessible library of images that can be searched in a much more
> flexible way using other search terms and criteria, via metadata, keywords
> and even visually by picture.
> >
> > We’re aware that this could be expensive and time consuming but I think
> it important in the long term for the accessibility and management of our
> images. What I’d like to do in the first instance is to demonstrate the
> usefulness of DAMS to our directorship here. We need an affordable system,
> bearing in mind that commercial archaeology doesn’t reap large profits.
> Graham has been experimenting with some open sourced DAMS but I wonder if
> anyone would be willing and able to give us some guidance with this.
> >
> > With thanks,
> >
> > Strephon Duckering
> >
> > Photographer
> > Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
> > Unit 54, Brockley Cross Business Centre, 96 Endwell Road, London SE4 2PD
> > tel: 020 7639 9091
> > fax: 020 7639 9588
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> > www.pre-construct.com
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