The document discusses various options for managing media assets in Drupal, including core and contributed modules. It focuses on the Asset Manager module as a promising solution for uploading and integrating images and other media types into content. The presentation covers topics like media upload, storage, integration into pages, and managing large media libraries. It concludes with an open discussion on approaches to media asset management.

1. Media Asset
Management
• Ramiro Gómez rgomez@lieblinx.net
• Oliver Grimm ogrimm@lieblinx.net
• Software Developers at lieblinx GmbH in
Berlin, Germany www.lieblinx.net

2. What will be covered?
• Media Upload
• Media Integration
• Media Storage
• How to manage media (open discussion)

3. Drupal Core Media
Features
• Upload module for various file types as node
attachments
• Basic image processing toolkit for resizing,
cropping, rotating and ?
• How to integrate non textual media?

4. Contrib Media Modules
• Asset Manager - The Solution to all your
problems!?
• Image
• Video
• OpenPackage Video
• Imagefield, Imagecache,....
• FlashVideo, SWF Tools

5. Asset Manager
• Today 11 am - the surprise
• Asset Manger - a management solution that
currently supports images
• Upload and content integration
• Other media like video, audio, etc. will
supported in future versions

6. Image module
• Images as nodes
• Pros: taxonomy, commenting, etc.
• Unless you are flickr you want to integrate
images in your content

7. Video Module
• Video upload, download, and display
• pros and cons - see image module

8. More Media Modules
• Too many to list them all
• To name a few: imagefield and imagecache

9. The Problem
• Which module to use?

10. The Answer
• Asset Manager

11. Wait!
• Current release of AM is a development
snapshot
• But it looks very good already

12. Media Integration
• Some options: plain html, tinymce, fckeditor,
content filters, CCK and theming

13. tinymce
• pros: „usability“, extensible
• cons: lots of JS, slow, complex

14. fckeditor
• pros: „usability“, extensible, content
templates, filemanager
• cons: lots of JS, slow, complex, safari not
supported

15. Media Storage
• All one one server: bad performance with lots
of media and traffic
• www.bloomstreet.net : ssh, filestore,
filemanager
• www.resistance-archive.org: Server mounted
as Samba share
• Media Mover module: Amazon S3, etc

16. Open discussion
• How to manage media?
• What are your approaches?

17. Thanks.