[thelist] Canto Cumulus?

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 21 22:19:01 CDT 2003


Hey Sam thanks a bunch for the info. If I need any help i will indeed
contact you, appreciate the offer!

Tom
--- Sam <sam at sam-i-am.com> wrote:
> hi Tom,
> we use it here at work for (internal) asset management. We've got
> an 
> archive of scans, images, pdf, docs etc going back 30+ years that
> our 2 
> librarians maintain. Mostly their interface with it is the database
> tool 
>   - adding data and metadata.
> We also used their web add-on to make the archive available on the 
> intranet. I did most of that work originally, they've since taken
> it on.
> 
> It does some nice things like on-demand generation of various 
> resolutions of the (graphic) assets. And it has a shopping cart
> like 
> functionality for acummulating a set of assets for download.
> 
> We had some difficulty with it intially but their tech support was 
> fairly responsive. I didn't do any of the comparitive purchasing 
> research so I can't tell you if its better or worse than productX.
> I can 
> say it was sufficiently non-intuitive to warrant 3 weeks of
> developer 
> (me) time to I can get a workable, attractive web interface on it..
> The 
> templating is a little funky and limited, but we ultimately got
> done 
> what we wanted done.
> Technically speaking there's a database component - with a windows 
> client for data entry, management. For the web functionality
> there's a 
> cgi (compiled .exe) that allows querying of the database and does
> the 
> templating. We use it with IIS. As a cgi it probably works with all
> 
> kinds of servers though.
> 
> If you have specific questions, feel free to contact me offlist (or
> on 
> even).
> 
> Sam
> 
> Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a job opportunity in front of me that might include
> dealing
> > with a large image database that is stored in a Cumulus database,
> > which a company called Canto is the maker of.
> > 
> > This is the only thing that I am not familiar with that has to do
> > with the job. I've take a brief look at thier website but its a
> lot
> > of marketing speak. Does anyone know anything about this that
> could
> > give some insight? Is it good, bad, or indifferent? How is it to
> work
> > with - or is it some kind of standalone system?
> > 
> 
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