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DBGallery is a Digital Asset Management software package. It has a special focus on utilizing image meta-data for finding, exploring and organizing photos. It is a multi-user system for use in organizations.

History
DBGallery's first public release was December 2007. Since then there has been several major releases. Version 4.0 added data presets and GeoTagging. The current version being 4.3, released in June, 2011.

Platform
The graphical interface runs on Microsoft Windows only. Its database and image files may reside on other operating systems, including Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X. It runs on 32 and 64-bit systems.

Distinguishing Features

 * Multi-User: The database may reside on a server with any number of workstations accessing the same data and photos.


 * SQL database.


 * Search based on data fields (keywords, country, subject, copyright, etc.)


 * IPTC/XMP metadata editing


 * GeoTagging and a view of images across a map.


 * Data templates: allow a preset collection of data field values to be saved and later applied to images. This facilitates subsequent fast tagging of one or many photos with these pre-filled data fields.


 * Logical Views: tree views of images organized by meta-data.


 * Virtual Sets: shared collections of images.


 * Reports, including counts of images by Year, City, Author, Subject, and others.


 * Emailing of images and data, including creating PDF files for sending images when use Web-based email.


 * QuickView Cards, showing categories of data as a mouse cursor rolls over a thumbnail.

Issues
Non-photo formats, such as PDF and Video, and not supported.

The software loads slowly when there are over 100,000 images.