[TYPO3-dam] DAM implementation for photo-agency (up to 2 000 000 photos)

[René Fritz]

> 1) delete unneeded fields (this is important to save space)
> now they  have 76000 images  and plan to have 1 000 000 or more

Not all fields are needed, therefore if will be no problem to remove some.
But I think it's enough to remove the text excerpt fields. I don't think you 
will get much speed by removing many fields.

> 2) make custom  BE module for upload and indexing photos.
> Variants of upload + indexing:
> - zip file with up to 100 jpg with one csv-file of fields
> - indexing of a folder (csv-file can be uploaded separately)
> In both variants use IPTC possible (with a customization of fields)

IPTC is already used.
The custom module shouldn't be too much work (for me :-). There's also a cron 
script which can do the job with some customizing.

> 3) customization of origin, thumbs and watermark generation and storage.
> (of cource origins will be low-resolution). Each photo will have unic file
> name (photo ID).
> The best way  is not clear yet.
> I plan to use filesystem with some default structure base on the current
> year and month (YMM)
> /i/601/some-code/
> /i/601/other-name/
> ...
> /i/602/else-code/
> ...
> /i/612/more-code/
> With possibility to do a custom folders (this is mainly organizational
> question).

This depends on you. The DAM do not use a fixed storage structure.


> Where to store tumbs\watermaked :
> - in a subfolder of each folder (easy manage/delete, but problems with
> Apache config to restrict show original not-watermarked images)
> - in other folder with a special structure:
> /img/XX/XX/
> where XX - is something automaticly generated with normal ditribution.

This is an application anyway and needs to be done by an extra extension. I 
think it can be done inside your plugin which display the images on the 
website.

René

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