[TYPO3-dam] TYPO3 solution for photo database

[Dan Osipov]

Quick note on performance: our DAM database holds close to a million 
objects, with several thousand added each day with no performance problems.

Features are a different question though.

Dan Osipov
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Ulrich Lorenz PHZ Luzern wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> Our university has an archive of about 20'000 photos that are being used
> in the website, in flyers and reports and are also available for the
> press.
> 
> We need to make this archive available. As we make intensive use of the
> DAM we think it would eventually be possible to integrate this archive
> into our TYPO3 websites. 
> 
> These features are needed:
> 
> - Assigning (multiple) categories (also by batch assignment) to pictures
> (as done in DAM)
> - Reading/adding meta data to pictures (as done in DAM)
> - Category tree view 
> - Thumbnail view of the selected category (ev. with watermarks)
> - Big picture view in a lightbox (ev. with watermarks)
> - Full text search of the metadata with thumbnails view as result (as
> done in DAM list module) 
> 
> There should be two user groups (what could be realized by felogin):
> 
> - Read only users can browse the database (preferably with watermarks)
> - Full access users may additionally download the photos in original
> quality without watermarks
> 
> Our preferred way of downloading the files would be as follows:
> 
> - The (full access) user can add pictures to a kind of shopping basket
> - After having finished the selection, he can download the files after
> having entered a reason (e.g. 'these pictures are used in the website of
> the research department')
> - An internal counter should be available to show how many times a file
> has been downloaded in full size
> 
> We know that at the moment there is no extension that offers all these
> features. But we would appreciate every constructive input to this
> topic: Has someone used DAM/DAM frontend for such a solution? May the
> DAM assetsets help in future? Is there a shopping extension that could
> be extended for this purpose? Or is it a hopeless mission to use TYPO3
> for that kind of archive?
> 
> Thanks in advance and regards,
> 
> 
> Lorenz