[digiKam-users] Collaborative photo organization

[CanadaRunner]

We're a group of several people working on different projects together.
As a base infrastructure we have one file server.

Unfortunately finding the right pictures in this hierarchic file
organisation is super cumbersome.
For that reason I look for an option of a collaborative photo organisation.
These is my requirement list:
- different people can add new pictures to the shared library/db
- different people can at the same time tag pictures, edit , etc. (mainly
tagging)
- No lock on the entire database when someone is working on the DB.

Can this achieved collaborative working be achieved with DigiKam. As I
followed from reading the manual this should be no problem when using a
shared, remote database (e.g. mysql) which isn't lock to one single user.
But I don't now how the interaction is done of DigiKam with the database.

Thanks for your response, or links of similar successful endeavours.



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[Shai Gluskin]

It possible that Piwigo might be more appropriate for your needs.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:36 AM CanadaRunner <[hidden email]> wrote:

We're a group of several people working on different projects together.
As a base infrastructure we have one file server.

Unfortunately finding the right pictures in this hierarchic file
organisation is super cumbersome.
For that reason I look for an option of a collaborative photo organisation.
These is my requirement list:
- different people can add new pictures to the shared library/db
- different people can at the same time tag pictures, edit , etc. (mainly
tagging)
- No lock on the entire database when someone is working on the DB.

Can this achieved collaborative working be achieved with DigiKam. As I
followed from reading the manual this should be no problem when using a
shared, remote database (e.g. mysql) which isn't lock to one single user.
But I don't now how the interaction is done of DigiKam with the database.

Thanks for your response, or links of similar successful endeavours.



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[CanadaRunner]

Thank you for your input! Was not aware of Piwigo and it's quite cool.
As far as I have seen and looking at the extensions it is rather a
opensource flickr (when I'm allowed to say so) as it is really lacking of
one of the key features I'm locking for and this is /adding/ new metadata,
keywords, maybe also a bit of reorganization of images in different folders.
This is esp. given with digikam, but lacking in piwigo.

As A later step I could think of publishing the pictures as Dimitri Popov
mentioned in  Linux Magazine
<https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce/Perfect-Cloud-based-Photo-Setup-with-digiKam-and-Piwigo>  



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Le 09/03/2021 à 21:44, CanadaRunner a écrit :
> Thank you for your input! Was not aware of Piwigo and it's quite cool.
> As far as I have seen and looking at the extensions it is rather a
> opensource flickr (when I'm allowed to say so) as it is really lacking of
> one of the key features I'm locking for and this is /adding/ new metadata,
> keywords, maybe also a bit of reorganization of images in different folders.
> This is esp. given with digikam, but lacking in piwigo.

of course not lacking

but I'm not sure how Piwigo works in a shared environment, that is I
don't know if it can manage concurrent database access, specially is two
or more people works on the same album.

I use both Digikam and Piwigo

http://dodin.org/piwigo/index.php

jdd

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