ResourceSpace Reviews & Product Details

Try it if you're looking at Asset Management options. It's highly capable, competitively priced (if you use Montala to set it up and administer), and easily the best open-source solution out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Managing a variety of digital assets in one cloud-based location. Reduces time needed to review projects; facilitates easy sharing of assets. Low cost, especially if you can install, deploy and manage the system yourself. Montala, who maintains and distributes ResourceSpace, produces frequent software updates, maintains a very active and helpful Google Group, and also sells turnkey installations of the system at very competitive rates compared to other big commercial Digital Asset Management players.

I've tested over 50 digital asset management systems over the last 5 years and actively use and administer 3 different Asset Management platforms. ResoruceSpace is one of the most stable, fastest performing systems on the market. What's great is that it will run happily on some of Amazon's smallest, least powerful servers. While competing system often require much more robust (i.e. more expensive) hosting environments.

ResourceSpace also handles more digital formats (for preview) than just about any other system as well. when properly configured, I haven't found a video file it cannot decode and create a preview for, including just about all professional video formats. It can also preview multi-page PDFs, Adobe Creative Suite files and many document files. It's only weakness is a rather weak accuracy level in creating document previews, but on the flip side, it does a nice job of extracting text from documents and adding it to the files metadata.

All in all, especially if you set this up and administer it yourself, in my opinion it's the best open-source solution out there, and is still a top 10 option on the paid side of the spectrum for digital asset management.

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I would recommend ResourceSpace as a low barrier and low (or no) cost solution for a fairly robust digital asset management system. It is extremely versatile, and can be configured according to a specific user needs. It is also relatively intuitive to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been able to successfully launch an online photo archive of marketing and communications images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Don't do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has allowed us to consolidate image storage but the application is unstable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Resourcespace is a fantastic way to share files with coworkers without having to email large files or send a link to a folder on a cloud sharing site. Rather, you can simply upload your files to your Resourcespace archive and let interested parties know the name of the collection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Just try the free trial and see if it is right for you. It does take some time for people to get used to, but is worth the effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The goal was to find a solution that would be a central repository for images, videos and pdfs on a low budget. ResourceSpace more than met those needs and had room to be used in greater depth to generate more value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is so much better than keeping your content on an FTP, shared drive or on a Dropbox folder. It definitely takes someone to spearhead input and curation of content, and don't underestimate the effort required in cataloging content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ResourceSpace goes a long way towards solving the issue of consolidating media assets, doing away with duplicates and versions, eliminates a lot of menial work by automatically providing web-sized versions of high-res images, and creating a marketing or communications media assets portal for external clients. It also allows you to create collections and "themes" of featured assets, and allows you to provide asset specific captions and attributions so that your best content is always available, and in the best light. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use ResourceSpace as an archival DAM, primarily for archiving and preservation of video assets, so this recommendation is for others with similar goals. If we are being honest, I don't believe there is a fantastic archival DAM for sale at all; certainly not for under $50,000. Many DAMs that cost as much or more are still quite unreliable, poorly maintained, upgraded rarely, and are designed for archives that don't prioritize digital preservation. Those who do often develop their own DAMs. ResourceSpace is as feature-rich as the very best proprietary DAMs, but unlike those systems, RS is totally configurable (open source), and free. ResourceSpace doesn't mess with your files and takes asset preservation seriously (auto-import of technical metadata, md5 checksums, retention of original files, filenames and metadata). Other open source DAM options for users with slightly different requirements should also take a look at CollectiveAccess, and Artefactual's Archivematica and AtoM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ResourceSpace gives us the opportunity to preview, catalog and control our digital assets, retain, back up and move high-resolution original files to different server locations, between NAS servers for efficient file storage, or to LTO tape. RS makes our multimedia collection of over 150,000 assets accessible to our entire staff internationally. Most importantly, it gives us the ability to maintain our files responsibly for long-term preservation, and to ensure all data is preserved in its original file format and directory structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can do a lot with ResourceSpace. Just be sure to match your functionality requirements with the feature set (as with any software you consider). You should count on incurring some cost in terms of time and money to set RS up and keep it running. Still, it seems like a very good deal if the features meet your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the big problems was that our communications team was spending too much time providing media assets to outside users. We needed a system that would allow us to create a group of media assets that could be easily shared with partners without a lot of hassle. RS has allowed us to control access to assets but also keep track of what rights we have to use them and to share them accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Be sure that you have the necessary capacity to fuel your asset management system. We have a wonderful system in ResourceSpace, but our struggle is carving out the capacity to review our imagery in detail and apply appropriate metadata to ensure it's as useful and findable as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ResourceSpace has allowed us to make our vast image library (well over 40,000 assets) available for easy searching and sharing. What once required far too much time searching through disks and server folders, requiring a high level of institutional knowledge to know where to look and what to look for, now takes much less time, and is far easier to search without that institutional knowledge. It's allowed others throughout our organization to find imagery they need to access without calling on the few people who are most familiar with our photo assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are doubting implementing a DAM then Resourcespace is certainly worth installing. Low costs, low skill, high rewards. If you are considering installing a DAM then ResourceSpace is a good choice. Maintenance is good value, it is easily expandable and customisable - you could be spending your money on licences on other products or using it to increase the functionality of this one to meet your needs exactly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Storage and retrieval of images of works of art (and others) via keyword searches across the whole organisation across a large geographic spread both for internal use and for delivery to external agencies. Removal of local storage of images and having a central repository that allows sharing of these assets across different teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Be patient and ask for help after exhausting all avenues. Study the configuration file here include/config.default.php but be sure to use include/config.php as your actual configuration file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ResourceSpace has most of the features of a classic DAM.

However, if you have a requirement that is not met you may be able to write a plugin to solve the problem.

There is a great open source user community behind ResourceSpace and most are eager to help.

Your financial savings could be substantial over commercial products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As Kevin Bacon would say; "It's a no-brainer". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sharing multimedia, collaboration, offering previews and exclusives, hosting brand collateral. It has solved all of our multimedia distribution issues both internally and externally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ResourceSpace has been a fantastic solution for our needs. Customer Service is top-notch! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sharing resources and storing photography for easy cataloging and access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If keeping things simple is your priority this is a great solution. The ability to access the system over the internet, thus making this a cloud solution, makes this a very convenient way of offering access to digital assets from anywhere just through internet access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Share digital assets. Make them available for use in all kinds of publications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.