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

[Alex Price]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for this.

Unfortunately, we are on copper phone cable (practically dial up speeds) 
so we're unlikely to be able to make use of anything web based but I'll 
give it a look just in case.

Cheers,

Alex.

On 26/03/15 12:10, Alan Pater wrote:
> 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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