Digital Asset Management: Resource Space

[jdaviescoates]

@marylou don't worry @staff will be able to move it for you

[ccfu]

You should be able to host this via the LAMP app.

[timconsidine]

£500 p/m self-hosted … or did I misunderstand?

[ccfu]

Self-hosted is free of charge. The £506 per month is optional for support.

[timconsidine]

Ah ha

[scooke]

FWIW, I used this quite a lot, and it wasn't easy to set up, nor maintain. It needed lots of ram. I had it on my Cloudron. I also had it on a separate VPS running only LAMP. Despite the ease of the install instructions, there was always, always some weird, niche piece of software it needed installed first. It also had weird limitations like not being able to upload folders, nor reading or parsing a folder uploaded by SFTP (it uses MySQL to track media) - it took ALOT of work ahead of time to arrange your media you want to upload, and then alot of time to manage it the same way once in RS. Plus, frustratingly, it always eventually died on me, and no amount of help from forums could help me. You know what the only DAM, or DAM-like web app that has always worked and has been easy to maintain, etc., is? Filerun. However, I'm not sure the code for the free version is available anymore. UPDATE: https://docs.filerun.com/filerun_install_guide

[marylou]

What we need is a very simple way to save image files and add metadata (license and consent). I'm starting to think that using an Excel sheet might be the best option...

[marylou]

FileRun looks great, but the free version is no longer available to new users.

[ccfu]

@scooke

I am planning to install this on Cloudron so I will see if I run into the same isues you encountered.

Concerning the limitations: my understanding is that (virtual) collections rather than folder hierarchies are used because everything is based on meta data. The advantage of this is that one document can be part of multiple collections. Most DAM systems seem to work on this principle and are not intended to replicate a virual drive.

Filerun is more like Nextcloud. In fact it advertises itself as "like Google Drive but private". As you wrote, it is no longer available free of charge.

[marylou]

@ccfu You're planning to install Resource Space? Would you share your experience?

[scooke]

@ccfu Race you!

[ccfu]

@scooke Not sure I'll get around to it today so all bets are off

[ccfu]

@marylou said in Digital Asset Management: Resource Space:

@ccfu You're planning to install Resource Space? Would you share your experience?

Sure.

[girish]

Dup of https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2036/resourcespace-digital-asset-management-dam . Please continue conversation there.