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

[Alan Pater]

You run it on your own computers and access it through your web browser.

No Internet connection needed.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Alex Price <seearoundwales at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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