Media Fotoweb

Digital Asset Management for Drupal 7

Stephan @ Ramsalt.com

What's a Digital Asset Management System (DAM)?

• Import and export of data with file conversion
• Augmenting media files with metadata and other properties
• Combination of data to archives, collections, albums, …
• Archiving and versioning of files

Pro's of a DAM?

• Single physical storage for your assets
• Could be used as a CDN
• Integration to different distribution channels (print/web)
• Journalists bypass Drupal 7's weak media support

Fotoweb by

• Advanced RESTful API
• Fully traverseable API
• List folders/albums
• List asset metadata
• Provides previews and renditions of assets

How does it look in Drupal?

Implementation for Drupal

• Media Browser Plugin
• Utilizing Fotoweb Embedded Selection Widget
• On file_save():
  Import of Asset Preview + metadata
• Drupal MediaReadOnlyStreamWrapper
• getLocalImageUrl(), getOriginalImageUrl()

Challenges

• API is quite complex
  -> simplified by Guzzle
• Original images are not exposed by Fotoweb API
  -> Using Fotoweb's ArchiveAgent API
• Drupal has bad support for ReadOnlyStreams
• Problem reoccurs at every place (image styles, Manual crop, …)
  -> Own image_derivate() handling

Let's give it a try!

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Hooray! We're contributing…

• Drupal module: https://www.drupal.org/project/media_fotoweb

Thanks for your attention!