ResourceSpace: Open Source Digital Asset Management (DAM)

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ResourceSpace is a web-based, open source digital asset management system which has been designed to give your content creators easy and fast access to print and web ready assets.

Benefits

  • Your users serve themselves so your internal workload is reduced.
  • Resources are found easily and quickly.
  • You can respond faster to external resource requests
  • It's much easier to send your resources to those that need them without using up your own bandwidth: suppliers receive links via e-mail so they can download the resources themselves directly from the system.
  • Higher quality resources are promoted so use of your best resources is encouraged.
  • A centralised and well organised repository encourages the re-use of purchased resources.
  • Only a web browser is needed - no cumbersome client software installations.
  • Collaboration is encouraged through the use of shared resource collections and searches.
  • Discover and respond to trends by using the detailed reporting and statistics functionality.

Features

  • Intuitive interface - a visually rich, user focused interface to support you in accessing and organising your resources
  • Pure web interface - manage and share your resources through your browser, no application install required.
  • Standards based - works with current browsers on all the popular platforms.
  • Simple and advanced search - the main search panel is available on every page allowing quick and intuitive access to the resources while the comprehensive advanced search lets you to focus your search and you are looking for. Use the 'search for similar' options to find other resources based on those you have selected.
  • Intelligent search ordering - resources are scored against each keyword using user search activity
  • Resources - detailed resource information, thumbnails and visual previews help you find the best and most relevant resources.
  • Organisation, collaboration and distribution - tools to organise your resources, share with colleagues on projects and distribute to others; no longer any need to e-mail large files.
  • Direct access to resource files - resources can be downloaded to your computer in a variety of sizes so your users can choose if they require high quality print files or lower quality screen / web resolution files.
  • Themes - pre-selected groups of the best resources.
  • Permissions - set resource access level by user group.
  • Research services - allows specific requests to be made to a central resources team.
  • Archiving - resources can be archived and are then not visible in the main search.
  • User contributions - allow your users to submit resources directly, which can then be processed by a central team before being made available to other users. Ideal for remote-working photographers.
  • Multilingual - the application is multilingual capable with most major European languages supported.
  • Automatic thumbnail creation for most image and video file types including JPEG, GIF, PNG, PDF, Photoshop PSD, InDesign, AVI, MOV, MPEG and many more.
  • EXIF/IPTC header import - automatically extracts and indexes EXIF and IPTC metadata.
  • Minimal hosting requirements - uses PHP/MySQL technology which is supported by all major hosting providers.
  • Plugin support - third party developers can create plugins to extend functionality.
  • Open source - released under a BSD style license and is therefore completely free of charge, and you are free to develop the product further without any restrictions.

Requirements

If you wish to host ResourceSpace yourself (instead of the managed service), you will be pleased to hear that the application uses straightforward PHP and MySQL and therefore works with the vast majority of hosting platforms without modification. The GD graphics library is required for automatic JPG/PNG/GIF thumbnail creation however this has been bundled with PHP since version 4.3. Installing ImageMagick and FFMmpeg will add further thumbnail support for hundreds more image/video formats.

Download

Documentation

Installation

Please read the Resourcespace Documentation Wiki for installation instructions.

Development

The latest development code can be downloaded from the Subversion repository by running the following command:

svn co http://svn.montala.net/svn/resourcespace/

User Forum

A Google Group has been set up for user support and discussions, feel free to join and post your questions and comments.

For troubleshooting / FAQs also try the ResourceSpace Documentation Wiki.

Product History

The application was originally developed for Oxfam GB by Neale Hall and Dan Huby of Montala and is in daily use by their internal resources team to manage and distribute over 30,000 photo, text and video resources. In the summer of 2006, Oxfam released the product under a BSD-style license and since then significant further development has been funded by a variety of organisations around the world.

Managed Service

Montala offers a managed service which includes all hosting, support and backups for your ResourceSpace installation - everything is taken care of leaving you free to simply use the application.

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