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NEOFINDER DAM SOFTWARE

Directly to customers who I am myself in contact with.

Through my own on-line photo library “store-front” base on PhotoshelterĪ sign at a winery pointing the way to Self Service shoppingĪ discussion with David Riecks, the creator of the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalogue (CVKC) and a great metadata advocate and guru, prompted my to formulate what I need and expect from a DAM solution.

NEOFINDER DAM SOFTWARE

My requirements of a Digital Asset Management software solution:

– Stand-alone desktop application on Windows (I don’t want to rely on a sometimes not perfect internet connection) – Single user = I’m an independent photographer. – Archiving of raw files (Canon cr2 mainly) and tiffs. (Currently split on two RAW/originals catalogues and one Develops catalogue in Portfolio) Capability for video files would be a plus but not absolutely necessary. – Files stored on a network (NAS) file server, so the sw needs to be able to work over a network. DAM FUNCTIONALITIES: Dom Ruinart writing in a book with a bird quill feather pen at Champagne Ruinartġ - Must: keywording and captioning (“description”) – this is the key to the whole application!ģ - Must: possibility to create “custom fields”.Ĥ - Must: possibility to create “virtual galleries” or “temporary sets” (what is called “categories” in Portfolio)ĥ - Must: virtual galleries can be hierarchicalĦ - Nice to Have: “Folder watching” – the app can detect changes on monitored foldersħ - Must: possibility to apply keywords and captioning to multiple files at the same timeĨ - Must: possibility to append data (as opposed to overwrite) to captioning (“description”) fieldĩ – Must: it is a cataloguing application, with a database, not just a file browser (not even a pimped-up and glorified file browser). This is both for speed and security reasons.Ĭustom Fields are important. For the (non-standard) three levels of description that Alamy (a stock agency) requires.