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

[Alex Price]

My Bad,

Thanks Guys!

On 26/03/15 12:48, Alan Pater wrote:
> 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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