[Typo3] Newbie queries on image management and metadata

[Christopher]

Hello,

On 11/08/05, Fred Riley <fred.riley at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

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> 1. Does Typo3, or any of its extensions, support popular vector image formats? I'm thinking of AI, CDR, WMF, and SVG.

Well, Typo3 uses ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick/GDLib for image
manipulation, so in theory, it should be able to do what they can do
[1].

> 2. Does it support the Dublin Core metadata schema? The metadata fields in the Digital Asset Management extension look very DC-like.

'Support'? Dunno. There's a DC meta tag extension [2] plus, as you say
DAM looks the part...you could unquestionably write an asset manager
of your own using T3 too.

> 3. Can you import thesauri and/or controlled vocabularies into Typo3 and use them for keywords and indexing? I'm thinking of something like MeSH (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).

See above; I guess you'd need to write an extension for this.

> 4. The guy who put me on to Typo3 said that one of its drawbacks was that the templates still used layout tables. Is this the case, or can we produce pure CSS layouts?

The guy who put you on to Typo3 has no idea what he's talking about 
:-) Seriously, there are really very few places where the system
actually enforces any kind of html output, and site layout is NOT one
of them.

> 5. Our developers will need to be able to search the image collection by:
> 
> * keyword
> * format (eg jpg, gif, png)
> * file size
> * image resolution
> * image depositor (ie who uploaded the image)
> 
> Are any/all of these possible? I'm guessing that, as Typo3 is based on MySQL, that we'll be able to construct SQL queries and run them.

Again, sounds like an extension.

> 6. How portable are sites/archives created with Typo3? That is, if I were to set up a site on Windows server X, is it easy to port everything to Unix server Y or Mac server Z? I know you can port MySQL databases easily, but to preserve functionality we'd have to port all the scripts used.

As long as you're not using anything platform specific in terms of
supporting software or in your php code, then as far as I know, it
should be portable to any platform where php/mysql can run.

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> I have read a good bit of TFM and extension docs, but there's so much FM to R that...

*ROFL*


-Christopher


[1] http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/formats.html
[2] http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/metatags/