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I just checked up on CollectiveAccess' features, and the newest version has faceting search/browse now, so you may want to try that. They support uploading videos as well. http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview Ethan On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't faceted > searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. You have a > very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that any single CMS/DAM > will work in precisely the way you want right out of the box, but Omeka > could very well be the closest thing. It's written in the Zend framework > for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. > It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. > > Ethan Gruber > University of Virginia Library > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denae <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include >> authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The >> ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is >> also desirable. >> >> My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only >> system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I >> don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new >> language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm >> looking for. >> >> Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be >> suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed >> description of the system below. >> >> Thank you, >> Jill Earles >> >> Detailed description: >> >> I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia >> artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with >> accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the >> content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching >> and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of >> visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a >> video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and >> notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this >> point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between >> them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a >> "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or >> without lines between them. >> >> It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can >> search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be >> an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work >> public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any >> components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the >> video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public >> site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we >> make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and >> comments about the work. >> > >