DBGallery is a Digital Asset Management

Digital asset management

Digital asset management consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets...

 software package. It has a special focus on utilizing image meta-data for finding, exploring and organizing photos. It is a multi-user system for use in organizations.

History

DBGallery's first public release was December 2007. Since then there have been several major releases. Version 4.0 added
data presets and GeoTagging

GeoTagging

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata...

. The current version being 4.3, released in June, 2011.

Platform

The graphical interface runs on Microsoft Windows only. Its database and image files may reside on other operating systems,
including Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X. It runs on 32 and 64-bit systems.

Distinguishing Features

• Multi-User: The database may reside on a server with any number of workstations accessing the same data and photos.

• Uses a SQL
  SQL
  SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
  
   database.

• Search for images based on data fields (keywords, country, subject, copyright, etc.).

• IPTC
  IPTC Information Interchange Model
  The Information Interchange Model is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, images and other media types...
  
  /XMP
  Extensible Metadata Platform
  The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform is a standard, created by Adobe Systems Inc., for processing and storing standardized and proprietary information relating to the contents of a file....
  
   metadata editing.

• GeoTagging
  GeoTagging
  Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata...
  
  and a view of images across a map.

• Reports, including counts of images by Year, City, Author, Subject, and others.

• Emailing of images and data.

• Data templates for pre-filled collections of data field values to be saved and later applied to images.

• Logical Views, allowing image collections to be browsed by meta-data values.

• Virtual Sets facilitate building shared collections of images.

• QuickView Cards display categories of data as a mouse cursor rolls over a thumbnail.

External Links

Official Website: http://www.DBGallery.com

YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DBGalleryVideos

Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/#!/DBGallery