Re: [SMW-devel] SMW-DAM integration?

[Neill M. <ne...@nl...>]

Hi Don.

I guess this is all down to what DAM you use. We have a client that uses 
Xinet and so we faced the exact same problem you have. We had to get an 
extension written that integrates with the Xinet Connector API. It was a 
major (and expensive) chunk of work! It allows links to assets stored in 
Xinet to be published to a SMW instance. Had to integrate the security 
as well which was fun.

It is a commercial DAM you are using or home grown?

Regards
Neill.

On 30/11/10 20:39, don undeen wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience integrating their
> wiki installation with an existing Digitial Asset Management system?
>
> At my institution, we've got a massive DAM with millions of images.
> Obviously we really don't want to import/copy any images into the wiki.
>
> However, some of the more useful features of image handling in the wiki,
> such as the RichMedia tool, WYSIWYG , the image page, etc, all depend on
> an image being uploaded to the wiki.
>
> Currently, when I want to show an image from the DAM in the wiki, I just
> reference the full URL in the wiki text.
> But that doesn't play nice with the WYSIWYG editor.
>
> I've described this problem previously as "Being able to use
> externally-referenced images in [[Image tags," but haven't heard any
> solutions yet.
>
> But maybe if I describe it as "DAM Integration" the importance of this
> feature will seem more apparent, or a different kind of solution will
> present itself? Because I could imagine some sort of proxy could be used
> to do DAM integration, and you still wouldn't need to support "External
> URLs" in [[Image tags.
>
> Seems like someone out there must be dealing with this issue. Anyone?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Don Undeen
> Metropolitan Museum of Art
>
>
>
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