Building Out Your OwnDigital Asset Management

Managing those precious assets using contributed Drupal modules!

• Eric Scott Sembrat• Web Manager for the College of Engineering at

Georgia Tech• Ph.D. Student in Instructional Technology at

Georgia State University

!• Website: http://ericsembrat.com• Twitter: @esembrat

Presenter

Media Management

• The state of media management in Drupal 7 is fragmented and antiquated for the Web.

• As compared to Web 2.0 applications• As compared to Wordpress

Introduction

• The development of several media management modules have attempted to bridge this divide.

• Scald • Media

Modular Solutions

• To propose a series of modules and settings to construct your own digital asset management (DAM) system.

Our Goal

• To look forward to the construction of a custom DAM, we need to look at why and how we arrived here.

Looking Backwards

• Lack of Modular Plugin Design Principles• One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Component Design

Why Wordpress Doesn’t Work

• Subpar user experience for upload and selection

• File metadata not exposed by default

• GD2’s limited scope

Why Drupal’s Core Doesn’t Work

• Use Drupal’s extensive field and modular design to construct a metadata-rich DAM.

• Extend Drupal’s file and image management with fields (metadata) and structure (content types, entities).

• Leverage Drupal’s dynamic entity display suite to manage, display, resize, and sort assets.

• Easy access to adjust, add, and disable features, fields, and functionality.

Our Solution

DAM Modules

• ImageMagick• File Entity• Multiupload• Prepopulate• RulesViews

Module List

ImageMagick

• An image processing toolkit• Standalone server-side library for image conversion• Replaces Drupal’s default GD2

What is ImageMagick?

• Why does ImageMagick rule?• Compatible with over 100 image formats• Transcoding to lossy image formats• Format conversion built-in• Add shapes/text to images• Comparison (likeness) metric• Large(mega, gig, tera-pixel) image support• Advanced image transform

ImageMagick Rules

• Basic Usage• Server-side tool ( http://www.imagemagick.org/ )

• Drupal integration ( https://www.drupal.org/project/imagemagick )

!• Advanced Usage

• ImageMagick Raw Effect ( https://www.drupal.org/project/im_raw )• ImageMagick Advanced

Usage

• Drupal handling of lossless photo formats• Server-side transcoding and resizing• Superfast image conversion

Why Use?

File Entity

• Extending file entities in core for new features and further integrations.

• Fieldable File Types (image, file, audio, video, doc)• Custom File Types with Fields• File Display Modes

What is File Entity?

• Basic Usage• File Entity ( https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity )

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• Advanced Usage• File Entity Inline ( https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity_inline )• File Entity Preview ( https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity_preview )• File Entity Preview Multiple• File MIME ( https://www.drupal.org/project/filemime )

• File Entity Revisions ( https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity_revisions )

Usage

• Allows all custom fields to show up when editing.

File Entity Inline

Multiupload

• File field bulk uploading • Limited by PHP / Server file limits

MultiUpload

• Basic Usage• Multiupload Filefield Widget ( https://www.drupal.org/project/

multiupload_filefield_widget )• Multiupload Imagefield Widget ( https://www.drupal.org/project/

multiupload_imagefield_widget )

Usage

Prepopulate

• Field auto-population using URL tokens• http://www.example.com/node/add/blog?edit[title]=le title

Prepopulations

• Basic Usage• Prepopulate ( https://www.drupal.org/project/prepopulate )

Usage

Rules

• Conditionally execute actions on events• Build reusable component sets of actions• Chain rules together into complex workflow

Rules

• Basic Usage• Rules ( https://www.drupal.org/project/rules )

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• Advanced Usage• Conditional Rules ( https://www.drupal.org/project/rules_conditional )• Rules Link ( https://www.drupal.org/project/rules_link )• Rules Bonus ( https://www.drupal.org/project/rb )

Usage

Views

• Create pages and elements that dynamically display entities and fields

• Pass arguments to limit content being displayed• Dynamically display and list content

Views

• Basic Usage• Views ( https://www.drupal.org/project/views )

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• Advanced Usage• Views Field View ( https://www.drupal.org/project/views_field_view )• Panels ( https://www.drupal.org/project/panels )• (and more)

Usage

And More!

• Node/Taxonomy/Entity Reference• String content types and entities together

• Fivestar• Rating and scoring field type

Some More Options

Our Solution

That’s a Wrap!

• Email: eric.sembrat@coe.gatech.edu• Twitter: @esembrat• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericsembrat/

Let’s Chat!