Sopha Media

(work in progress)

About

Sopha Media is a simple Media Asset Management System, following the KISS paradigm. It aims at keeping everything as simple as possible. This is, what Sopha Media aims for: A easy-to-use, easy-to-maintain MAM.

Features

the less, the better!

Honestly, do you really need a full-featured asset management system? I do not, that's why I created Sopha Media. If you look for a full-featured AM, try censhare!

Sopha Media features:

• NO user roles
• NO user categories
• NO user groups
• NO access rights
• NO change rights
• NO hassle!
• but...
  • users (all equal)
  • status and similar meta data
  • all assets are stored in the database
  • easy install, and more importantly, easy use!

Usage

(tbd)

Technical specifications

• utilizing the power of CouchDB for storing assets

(tbd)

Download

(tbd)

Installation

• dev install on mac os x (all manually, sorry for that, will change in the future)
  • Install HomeBrew by...
    • ...entering /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)" in your shell as Administrator and follow instructions
  • Install CouchDB...
    • ...by entering brew install couchdb (may take some time)
  • Start CouchDB...
    • ...entering /usr/bin/sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist
    • (Stopping: /usr/bin/sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist, Restarting: /usr/bin/sudo launchctl stop org.apache.couchdb
  • Create your database by...
    • ...

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• See also...
  • Soraya
  • Software Projects Overview
• Footnotes