Digital asset management component design in Drupal.

1. Building Out Your Own
Digital Asset Management
Managing those precious assets using contributed Drupal
modules!

2. Presenter
• 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

3. Media Management

4. Introduction
• 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

5. Modular Solutions
• The development of several
media management
modules have attempted
to bridge this divide.
• Scald
• Media

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

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

8. Why Wordpress Doesn’t Work
• Lack of Modular Plugin Design Principles
• One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Component Design

9. Why Drupal’s Core Doesn’t Work
• Subpar user experience
for upload and selection
• File metadata not
exposed by default
• GD2’s limited scope

10. Our Solution
• 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.

11. DAM Modules

12. Module List
• ImageMagick
• File Entity
• Multiupload
• Prepopulate
• Rules
Views

13. ImageMagick

14. What is ImageMagick?
• An image processing toolkit
• Standalone server-side library for image conversion
• Replaces Drupal’s default GD2

15. ImageMagick Rules
• 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

16. • Basic Usage
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

17. Why Use?
• Drupal handling of lossless photo formats
• Server-side transcoding and resizing
• Superfast image conversion

18. File Entity

19. What is 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

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

21. File Entity Inline
• Allows all custom fields to show up when editing.

22. Multiupload

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

24. • Basic Usage
Usage
• Multiupload Filefield Widget ( https://www.drupal.org/project/
multiupload_filefield_widget )
• Multiupload Imagefield Widget ( https://www.drupal.org/project/
multiupload_imagefield_widget )

25. Prepopulate

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

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

28. Rules

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

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

31. Views

32. Views
• Create pages and elements that dynamically
display entities and fields
• Pass arguments to limit content being displayed
• Dynamically display and list content

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

34. And More!

35. Some More Options
• Node/Taxonomy/Entity Reference
• String content types and entities together
• Fivestar
• Rating and scoring field type

36. Our Solution

40. That’s a Wrap!

41. Let’s Chat!
• Email: eric.sembrat@coe.gatech.edu
• Twitter: @esembrat
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericsembrat/