Someone pointed out I should keep a progress log of my various learnings and such while building this thing.
I agreed.
So first thing’s first: I am hopefully going to form coherent sentences while explaining why I’m doing what I’m doing.
Digital asset management is becoming mandatory in the office place, offering a coherent place for metadata and revisions of documents, images, videos, etc to occur (the ui) and be stored (the database). However despite this idea of a single high level storage system rising in ubiquity in the business sector, there’s just no competitor in the Free and Open-source Software space. The few I’ve personally used (Entermedia/OpenEdit and Razuna come to mind) had acceptable enterprise features but totally lacked any modern browser features and no helpful features to help the home user quickly access the files. beyond that external files aren’t readily handled at all by razuna.
This is all nit picking sure, but what are the real use cases for this software(s)?
My idea is for easier organization, not only in the database, but exported to a vfs and exposed to the network(cifs/nfs) like it should be. it would even be on a per-user basis, everyone ‘s music folder in a cluster would be able to collected into a master folder where any user could checkout albums or artists.
But use cases are cheap, is there actually a market for this, you may be asking yourself. Well there’s always a job market.
anyway progress updates as I see fit to follow along with more rambles. Comments are open if you’d like to contribute. It’s extremely unlikely anyone will discover this place.