IMPORTANT NOTICE: This project it not activelly developed anymore. I re-evaluated the "Photos" module of the Plex Media Server and as it seems have most of my requirements covered I'll give it a go. So, currently I have no need for Jiggle anymore.
Easy to use and lightweight photo asset management software.
- Cross-platform (mac, Linux, Windows)
- Simply so even my mum could manage thousands of assets
- Manage thousands of photos and videos on-prem or in the cloud
- Web UI and later on maybe native UI's for
- Responsive frontend so it works well on smartphones and one can upload smartphone photos easily
- Support EXIF and other metadata
- Photos and videos must be stored in the file-system in a natural folder hierarchie. Use year/month/day for building the foldernames. Allow Regex to configure how to build the folder hierachy.
- Define hierarchical tags
- Define smart-albums based on tags
- Streams/Activities so users cany easily follow the "what's new"
- Multiple usergroups and rights for different parts of the photo hierarchy
- Automated import and export features (provide API)
- Support upload of RAW images too. Store them as "variation" of the JPG's
- Optional: versioning
- Backend with ASP.Net Core WebAPI
- SPA Frontend with eg. React
- Lightweight and crossplatform database running on-prem and in the cloud: Mongo DB or EF Core w. PostgreSQL etc.
- Should we go relational or document DB?
- Use SOLID Prinziples at its hart
- Implement backend using adapter pattern eg. for different storage-systems
- Use Docker-Containers for deployment
- Full CI/CD pipeline
- Unit-Testing for the backend
- Unit-Testing for the frontend where it makes sense
- Native clients eg for iOS and AppleTV using Xamarin (.Net Core, Xamarin Forms, etc.)
- Backend is REST API (ASP.Net Core WebAPI)
- Frontend is a responsive SPA (React with Redux)
- Metadata is stored in a Mongo-DB using the backend only.
- Photos and videos are stored on the file-system or in databases and other storages (Adapter pattern, start with file-system)
- Store photos and movies on the filesystem
- Store metadata and other additional data in the database
- (Mass) Upload of files (pics and videos)
- Browse photos and videos using a standard webbrowser
- Manage tags
- Apply tags per file or in batch
- Timeline
- User Managment
- Rights Management
- Export to various format
- XMB
- Galery
- File 1:1
- Streams with subscribers
- Mobile App to easely upload iOS Photos and browse
- More backends (eg. files in databases)
- Improved search
- ...