Overview

From ResourceSpace Documentation Wiki

This guide introduces you to using ResourceSpace and leads you through the feature rich system - sophisticated search engine; direct access to resources in many resolutions; detailed resource information; collaboration and organisation tools; enhanced service provided by the team; intuitive interface and the powerful tools.

Whether you need quick, simple direct access to all the best resources, organise resources for team projects or prefer to work with professional researchers to find the very best resources, ResourceSpace provides you with all the tools to you need in a web based environment.

The ability to search quickly and accurately, browse the results intuitively, review the resources and then download directly to your computer lies at the heart of ResourceSpace. All the tools and services are then layered around this core process to support you in your work.

The application was originally developed for Oxfam GB by Neale Hall and Dan Huby and is in daily use by their internal resources team to manage and distribute over 30,000 photo, text and video resources. Oxfam agreed to release the product under a BSD-style license.

ResourceSpace is a web-based, open source digital asset management system which has been designed to give your content creators easy and fast access to print and web ready assets.

ResourceSpace at a glance:

• Intuitive interface - a visually rich, user focused interface to support you in accessing and organising your resources
• Pure web interface - manage and share your resources through your browser, no application install required.
• Standards based - works with current browsers on all the popular platforms.
• Simple and advanced search - the main search panel is available on every page allowing quick and intuitive access to the resources while the comprehensive advanced search lets you further refine your search criteria to better find what you are looking for. Use the 'search for similar' options to find other resources based on those you have selected.
• Intelligent search ordering - resources are scored against each keyword using user search activity
• Resources - detailed resource information, thumbnails and visual previews help you find the best and most relevant resources.
• Organisation, collaboration and distribution - tools to organise your resources, share with colleagues on projects and distribute to others; no longer any need to e-mail large files.
• Direct access to resource files - resources can be downloaded to your computer in a variety of sizes so your users can choose if they require high quality print files or lower quality screen / web resolution files.
• Themes - pre-selected groups of the best resources.
• Permissions - set resource access level by user group.
• Research services - allows specific requests to be made to a central resources team.
• Archiving - resources can be archived and are then not visible in the main search.
• User contributions - allow your users to submit resources directly, which can then be processed by a central team before being made available to other users. Ideal for remote-working photographers.
• Multilingual - the application is multilingual capable, with English/Spanish supplied, additional translations are straightforward.
• Automatic thumbnail creation for most image and video file types including JPEG, GIF, PNG, PDF, Photoshop PSD, AVI, MOV, MPEG and many more.
• EXIF/IPTC header import - automatically extracts and indexes EXIF and IPTC headers.
• Minimal hosting requirements - uses PHP/MySQL technology which is supported by all major hosting providers.
• Open source - released under a BSD style license and is therefore completely free of charge, and you are free to develop the product further without restriction.