Asset Management?
FredP - February 24, 2009 - 05:16
I have been hearing alot of drupal lately.
I would probably like to learn it, but before I do, let me ask you this.
Would drupal be a good choice to develop an asset management system? We need a system that will track alot of digital media. Everything from quicktime movies, image sequences, digital photography, document files, pdfs, object files, scene files, etc etc. Some are image files, some are text files, some are binary files. We need a good system that will give us an easily searchable database of all elements in the asset library.
Its probably been done a thousand times, but I have never done it, so I could use a little help in the right direction.
Thanks
Fred
Different Approaches
Though for asset management that may not be what you want.
The asset project probably handles things all-in-one, but I'm not too familiar with it. I have set up document management with just CCK file fields for upload, various categorization with taxonomy or cck, searching with search_files or Apache Solr Integration. Or if you don't want indexed search and just want categorized search, you can just use views.
You can probably integrate a CCK bar code field with barcode.
I don't think this is what you're after, but perhaps you may find some interesting discussions in the Libraries group on groups.drupal.org about library-specific implementations.
Am also interested...
Fred, did you find such a solution within drupal?
Warm regards
Jaya
jaya