I'm looking for a media database that will allow me to catalogue all
of my sound recordings and their related images and so on. Over the
past few years I have collected many recordings from Nepal, Tibet,
India, Borneo and Australia, along with zillions of accompanying
photos and some video footage.
I'm looking for something that I can type, for example, "tibetan nuns
chanting" and up will come all of my sound recordings of Tibetan nuns
singing/chanting, along with any pictures/videos that I might have
taken (or otherwise collected), and anything else related to the
recordings. It would all be accessible from within the database
without requiring me to delve into folders or manually launching other
apps. So for the search example above, the sound recordings could be
auditioned directly by clicking on them, the pictures would be
thumbnails that could be clicked on to view full size, and so on.
I realise I'd have to do much of the initial indexing, creating key
words and so on, but that's unavoidable.
>From what I can tell, this is known as Digital Asset Management (DAM).
I have found many apps that do it, but most are either designed for
corporate/network use (and thereby expensive, requiring dedicated
servers and so on) or are focused almost entirely on photographic and
video use.
Does anyone here have any recommendations based on personal experience?
- Greg Simmons
P.S. I'm also posting this on the phonography list, sorry!
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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