Public Domain/Open Source Software Evaluation

Photo Organizer

What is Photo Organizer Photo Organizer is a Web-based multi-user

photo management tool that was designed for professional photographers.

It offers a searchable photo database that supports photo version control, a datebook with client management, photo submission history, EXIF, IPTC, XML, and XMP.

The flexible architecture of Photo Organizer will allow the program to run on a single computer or on a cluster of computers.

Scalable Architecture/Software Components PostgreSQL - This database is the best and most

reliable open source SQL server. Photo Organizer benefits from its transaction support, keeping your data consistent even if the system would fail.

PHP - the Hypertext Preprocessor. Apache HTTP Server - the number one HTTP

server on the Internet. This is the main engine executing the PHP code.

ImageMagick - is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.

Scalable Architecture/Software Components Dave Coffin's dcraw image decoder. – an ANSI C

program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system.

mail transfer agent - if you wish to use e-mail notifications.

ps2pdf – converts PS (postscript) file formats, to PDF (portable document format) file formats.

gtar - standard GNU tar, usually comes with all major Linux distributions.

unzip - standard GNU unzip.

Photo Organizer Features

Control Privacy Openness Network Accessibility Scalability

Control

Photo Organizer gives you complete control over your photographs. Your data cannot be held hostage by a unilateral change by another person or company, not even the original software developers.

Privacy

Photo Organizer lets you specify access permissions on a per-folder and per-image basis, so only those who are allowed to see any particular images can do so.

Openness Photo Organizer uses off-the-shelf Free

and Open Source Software, and is itself licensed under the GPLv2.

If the original developers abandon the software, its users will always have the right to continue using it, fix bugs, and add new features themselves.

This openness also ensures that your all-important data can never be held hostage by someone else.

Network Accessibility

Instead of being tied to one computer when managing or accessing your photos, you can do so on any computer with a web browser.

Any changes made are instantly reflected to all other users.

Scalability

Photo Organizer easily handles tens of thousands of photographs, and is limited only by the amount of disk space of its server.

Photo Organizer Tools

Photo Management Client Management, Shop Module,

and Date book Printing Search

Photo Management Each image you upload can be tagged with

detailed metadata – Captions, keywords, locations, timestamps, equipment you used and its settings.

Photos are organized in hierarchical folders, but can also be added into multiple albums.

Image files are stored in an image repository with an automatic volume manager which enables splitting up large repositories into smaller chunks that are more easily managed and backed up.

Robust bulk upload features allow you to import hundreds, if not thousands of images in one go, complete with per-image metadata.

Client Management, Shop Module, and Date book The system has Client Management

interface with online client registration. Online client registration. Clients registered with you can access

your protected photos. Define formats and availability for each

photo. Submit photos to Clients and track

submissions.

Printing

Print color photo brochures in PDF and PS formats.

Print labels with shooting data in PDF and PS formats.

Over 130 predefined label types and 54 paper sizes, with the possibility to add your own custom labels.

Search Search and display results on three

categories: photo, folder and user The search engine uses stemming to

include related variations of your keywords. Stemming works for English only.

Logic operators allow you to formulate sophisticated search queries ( AND, OR, and NOT).

Photo search results can be saved into albums, exported, and printed.

Bibliography

http://po.shaftnet.org/start http://www.k-i-s.net/article.php?

article=6 http://freshmeat.net/projects/

photoorganizer/?branch_id=43978&release_id=266783