Comments on: Review of Available Open Source DAM Software

By: Subbu

Subbu — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:50:43 +0000

Nice list of all opensource DAM solutions, Can anybody suggest me a good opensource solution which suits for VFX studio,
my expectation is support 3D objects (with thumbnail if possible) and Image sequences

By: Naresh Sarwan

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:05:33 +0000

A quick message to anyone who is not an open source vendor who wants to feature their product (as we have had quite a few of these sent in), please refrain from submitting your requests to Open Source Digital Asset Management.

This site is for pure open source DAM systems only, you must have an OSI approved licence for the core solution, a free trial, ‘uses open source components’ or ‘has open source plug-ins’ etc is not a valid reason for inclusion. The general vendor list on Digital Asset Management News:http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/dam-vendors/ should be used for this purpose

By: Apostol

Apostol — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:07:22 +0000

This fine list really helped me out a couple of months ago that had to do some reasearch on OS DAM solutions… thanks for sharing!

After examining the listed projects (actually 2 of them missing at that time) I came out with the following gross categorization:
* Photography collection management solutions: e.g. Gallery
* Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions: Nuxeo DAM, Alfresco
* Institutional Repositories (a.k.a Open Access Repositories, Preservation Repositories) solutions: DSpace, Fedora Commons
* Digital Library (a.k.a Library Collection Management, Digital Library, Library Catalog) solutions: Greenstone, CollectiveAccess (Mary Elridge’s suggestion)
* Others, including both “True DAM” and “Other category” solutions

Perhaps a future reorganization of this nice article may include some more explicit indication of “category” of the listed solutions.

From my own research and using the above categorization as a tool for guided expansion of search efforts, I came across the following OS projects that might also be relevant to this list:

* EPrints [http://www.eprints.org/] (Institutional Repositories)
* Omeka [http://omeka.org/about/] (Digital Library)
* CollectiveAccess [http://www.collectiveaccess.org/] (Digital Library)
* CollectionSpace (ex Open Collection) [http://www.collectionspace.org/] (Digital Library)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:57:38 +0000

A lot of nice DAMs, I wonder if anyone have any experience in using any of these in a photography business? Where multiple photographers can upload, photos, set indivduel prices, and sell through these. And even have different price list for the same image depending on the client and usage?

By: Mariusz

Mariusz — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:27:06 +0000

Hello
Where nice site….
Maybe someone can help me to decide what software will be the best for such solution:
We have on server folder with many pictures in categories.
In this catalog on each day are placed new pictures, and some are deleted (by replication with other server).
Do You know that one of open source software Can observe folder and automaticly add or delete files from view for people that will be log on to application ?
Thanks for help

By: Richard S

Richard S — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:36:26 +0000

Nice write up and comparison. I too like Stephane Bezombes am interested in the best option which could handle acquisition, ingestion, transcoding, scene detection, timestamp, voice transcription.

By: Naresh Sarwan

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:30:48 +0000

@Mary, I think Montala is the company operated by Dan Huby who originally developed Resourcespace, unless there is another?

I’ll need to do some research on Concerto & CollectiveAccess. If you have any links to share, please let me know.

By: Naresh Sarwan

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:28:21 +0000

@John, no, it’s quite preservation oriented from what I have read in your link but that’s not grounds for excluding it. We’ll expand the entries to include this.

By: Mary Eldridge

Mary Eldridge — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:34:03 +0000

Other smaller, php-based systems I’ve been following as a hobbyist:
Montala
Concerto
CollectiveAccess

CollectiveAccess is my current interest. V1.0 seems to be stalled out, but the company looks like it’s busy doing paid-for projects.

Would be interested in any feedback on these.

By: John Waddingham

John Waddingham — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:00:05 +0000

Thank you for this very useful list. As a DAM novice, I am looking for leads to select software for delivering online a ‘digital library’. DSpace & Fedora Commons are common candidates. So also is the open source Greenstone software from New Zealand.
http://www.greenstone.org/
A novice’s question: Is there something about Greenstone which disqualifies it for inclusion in your open source DAM list here?

By: Stephane Bezombes

Stephane Bezombes — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:08:15 +0000

Nice panorama, thanks for sharing.
It’ll tooks weeks (months ?) to make fine comparison, but I would like to know which of these software manage the best *video files* (transcoding, scene detection, timestamp, voice transcription, …).

By: Naresh Sarwan

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:46:00 +0000

Ralph, thanks for keeping us informed. The Daydream entry has been updated.

By: Ralph Windsor

Ralph Windsor — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:25:27 +0000

This is a good write up of the available options. Just one point on the Daydream entry, we do provide a public AGPL edition of FocusOPEN you can download now via http://www.digitalassetmanager.com

By: Naresh Sarwan

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:56:36 +0000

Steve, thanks for the feedback, the company name has been corrected.

By: Steve Reiner

Steve Reiner — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:50:26 +0000

Thanks for the mention of FlexSpaces + AIR RIA client for Alfresco. (Also have a Flex non AIR in browser version of FlexSpaces) Plan to add more DAM features to FlexSpaces and maybe have a DAM specific version. (Note: company name is Integrated Semantics, not Integrated Dynamics)
FlexSpaces also supports LIveCycle Content Services ES2. CMIS Spaces, based on FlexSpaces, supports any repository with CMIS APIs (Alfresco, EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, Nuxeo, Day Software CRX, etc.)