Recommendations for Webbased Archive

Requirements for archival type software 1. Data/Image/possibly video.... upload/search/retrevial/edit from web. 2. Easily implemented user defined Custom Fields 3. Easy backup. 4. Low cost ... either opensource or very low cost

I am a very novice programmer. My primary goal is to manage a collection and publish it to the web.

Options

A. Open source software such as collective access Problems: Custom fields not supported. Continued support? Portablity of database?

B. Use Microsoft Access and then use MVC or other development platforms to eventually publish to the web.

Problems:Difficult to integrate to web?

C. Design my own MVC database ap开发者_如何转开发plication. Problems:Difficult for novice programmer? Custom Fields and Upload of various data formats difficult to implement?

Sounds like you are looking for a Digital Assets Management system. I found ResourceSpace (http://www.resourcespace.org/) and Razuna (http://www.razuna.org/) very useful for similar projects - both fall into your A category.

Requirements for archival type software 1. Data/Image/possibly video.... upload/search/retrevial/edit from web. 2. Easily implemented user defined Custom Fields 3. Easy backup. 4. Low cost ... either opensource or very low cost

Hi there,

As mentioned here before, but Razuna will satisfy your requirements quite well.

It can manage images, documents, videos and audios. It will share folderd and collections on the web with access permissions and will allow you to search among the different kind of assets as well.

Moreover, it can handle metadata of all this asset. It will not only read metadata, but also WRITE metadata, also. Furthermore, you can set the custom fields for each asset type and users will have a web interface to work with.

Razuna supports different databases (H2, MySQL, MS SQL and Oracle (soon DB2)) and let's you migrate from one db to another with ease (backup / restore option).

Best of it all: It is available under a open source license for you to deploy and enjoy today. You can get it at http://razuna.org.

Kind Regards, Nitai

PS: I'm the main developer and founder of Razuna.