[Digikam-users] Problems with Linux & DigiKam - Looking for alternatives or workarounds.

[Alan Pater]

ResourceSpace is an open-source web-based DAM. From what I have seen
of it, it would appear to be targeted to organizations of your type
and meets all 3 of your requirements.

    http://www.resourcespace.org/features

The support forum is quite active, or you can pay for direct support
if you need something special. (your #4)

   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/resourcespace

Cheers!

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Alex Price <seearoundwales at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to do something big!
>
> We are a UK Based charity trying to give 20 years of research on Points Of
> Interest around the UK to the public for free via an app.
>
> We have been using DigiKam under Linux Mint for the past few months to
> attribute both text tags and geotags to a massive library of Jpegs (Over
> half a million and counting). However, the setup isn't working as we had
> hoped.
>
> Eventually we want to have an app designed that will return various photos
> based on a user search. This would allow the app user to search either by
> GPS info via an open source map or by text tag such as; Location, Child
> Friendly? Dog Friendly? Disabled Friendly? Cost. Etc.
>
> In a perfect world we would be able to use one program to apply text tags &
> geotags and do a bit of resizing and manipulation hence trying Linux &
> DigiKam, but we've had a few problems with data loss and we're not really in
> a position to cope with the extra challenges added by trying to get to grips
> with Linux.
>
> We have been advised recently by Dmitri Popov that MySQL isn't currently
> stable enough with DigiKam (which certainly matches with our experiences)
> although this might improve over time. Dmitri knows his stuff and has been
> really helpful but it's not fair of us to overburden him and I'm also hoping
> that multiple heads will be better than one. With all this in mind;
>
> Can anyone think of a program (or combination of programs? that will allow
> us to do the following?
>
> Write our text tags and geotags into a database rather than the metadata of
> the original files.
>
> Allow multiple users to directly access our photos over a shared network.
>
> Allow multiple users access to a shared database over a shared network.
>
> If number three isn't possible, we are prepared to pay someone to write a
> program to merge our separate databases. (We would need to be able to run
> this program at will.)
>
> We will be really grateful for any help that anyone can provide!!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alexander.
>
>
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