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David N.

Archival Consultant and Curator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/13/2024

"An excellent, versatile DAM system"

5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

Extremely user friendly, makes training new staff on our system very easy. The versatility allows for it to be customed very closely to our specific needs. The customer support is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

Restraints in metadata fields can require a lot of tinkering before getting them just right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jennifer L.

Global Picture Editor

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/16/2024

"Digital asset management system for NGO"

4/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

ResourceSpace stores the majority of our visual content that is made accessible to our whole NGO organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

ReourceSpace's search engine not fully reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kevin S.

Marketing Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/17/2024

"Upgraded from long running self installed free version to cloud hosted"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

Fast search results and customisation of meta data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

Process of creating collections and selecting the resources is cumbersome and not straightforward for new users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Anthony W.

Associate Director for Web Platforms and Operations

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/15/2022

"Excellent Image DAM"

5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

I love the ability to ingest, catalog and tag assets for quick and easy recall. The ability to share assets with others quickly is a must in a fast-paced business environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

There are features that are not fleshed out and feel very clunky. The ability to share a link with external users so they can add/share assets is a great addition, though it lacks business and legal required TOS when accepting those assets. Attempts to address this, even through paid sponsorship, with Montala has been briskly dismissed. Other things like addressing asset comment has also been met with the same fate. Even when showing real-world use cases and, again, offering paid sponsorship to help improve features. This is probably the most frustrating aspect and the only thing that causes pause in recommending ResourceSpace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResourceSpace solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our organization is over a century old and has a plethora of historical assets we need to digitize and catalog. ResourceSpace fits into that role in an excellent way providing the tools we need. Additionally, we have a print (64 page) and digital magazine that we are integrating into ResourceSpace to be able to seamlessly meld with our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Glenn P.

Advertising Sales and Service

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/14/2022

"OK media organization software. Search functionality leaves a lot to be desired"

2.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

sorts through a lot of media content. Allows to create public and private albums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

Search leaves a lot to be desired. It can be hard to find media. Even with good tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jared P.

Athletics Department Graduate Assistant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2021

"Good Open Source solution"

2.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

It's a free open source digital asset management solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

It takes time to maintain. You need to know how to do the backend work and the server space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Chris B.

Partner and Creative Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/5/2018

"Excellent Open-Source Asset Management Solution for Large and Small Businesses"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

Clean, simple interface & highly configurable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

Use of collections can be clunky. Difficult to delete assets (although that's probably by design). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResourceSpace:

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.

What problems is ResourceSpace solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Chris Blair Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2018

"Amazing free, open source DAM system"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

ResourceSpace is free software, meaning there are no license fees and enterprise pricing plans even for unlimited users. This has been essential for my institution as we have limited resources. I worked with a very small group of people, using the ResourceSpace free open source software, to launch an online photo archive of marketing and communications images. We were fortunate to have an in-house systems administrator who was willing to work with us to set up the system based on our specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

There are several customizations we would have liked to incorporate, but with our limited support, we were not able to find solutions for all of them. One shortfall in particular is the lack of ability to create nested collections, or sub-collections within larger ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResourceSpace:

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.

What problems is ResourceSpace solving and how is that benefiting you?

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

UN

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/12/2017

"Data Loss"

0.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

It's actually a fairly decent as a DAMS but it''s also functions as a DADS (digital asset destruction system). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

We recently lost 1,234 files due to "bugs" or bad code. I would not recommend this application for use in any professional environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/8/2016

"Messy Interface, But Gets The Job Done"

3.5/5

What do you like best about ResourceSpace?

Resourcespace is a great solution for storing a large number of files on the web. While there are a number of different features on Resourcespace, I primarily use it to create "collections" of high quality photos. The collection feature is a great way to keep everything organized and easy to access. I also enjoy how accurate the search feature is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResourceSpace?

The Resourcespace is rather messy. The school I work for uses the program to upload, maintain, and share photos with faculty and staff. Because the interface isn't very clean, faculty and staff often have trouble trying to figure out how it works. In other words, Respurcespace can be relatively easy to grasp if you're familiar with programs similar to it, but if you're not, it can become incredibly difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.