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News: Alon Salant presented Photospace at CodeCon 2005 Feb 12, 2005 in San Francisco. You can read the full presentation description or view the presentation slides.

Photospace is an open platform for searching, viewing and annotating digital media in time and space. It is built to handle a large set of media and to provide tools to easily find and use what you are looking for.

http://photospace.org/personal is an instance that you can play with. Download and install Photospace to search and view your own digital media.

Core Principals

• Provide an open system for managing digital media and its meta data
• Use implicit meta data as much as possible with a focus on time and place
• Use but do not require explicit meta data
• Use filesystem-based organization and management of photo/media files
• No database
• Provide fast, powerful searching for a large media archive
• Provide an open set of services to enable easy integration with other applications

The Result

• A web application for viewing, searching, managing digital media
• Lucene-backed search engine with custom support for geospatial queries
• Hooks in to searching and serving media through SOAP-based web services, RSS, RESTful RDF, Flash Remoting
• Media file management through WebDAV, local filesystem, LAN fileshares, ftp/scp, or web application