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

[Henrique Santos Fernandes]

Alex,

You can install in a local server both of the alternatives.

So this won't be a problem.



Em qui, 26 de mar de 2015 às 09:46, Alex Price <seearoundwales at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> 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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