With growing media collections of endless media types
videos, photos, documents, audio etc
We really need more efficient intelligent and user friendly ways to organize, browse and backup this data. I don't think that modern Operating systems offer the kind of functionality that could be given to allow accessing all this media and enjoyable experience.
It is my opinion that techniques seen on the web like tagging and categories are a great way to aid organization and allow easier navigation and discovery of what you have on your gigabytes of data.
I want an experience seen similar in Adobe Bridge with mixed with tagging and category systems seen in Wordpress.
Adobe Bridge;
Offers you flexible sized thumbnails and multiple view types that allow browsing large collections of media a visual and pleasing experience.
Wordpress;
Offers a dynamic system that allows many ways of classifying, describing and organizing media(posts and pages).
A good read about tags and categories;
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/categories-versus-tags-whats-the-differ ence-and-which-one/
With tags and categories you are able to filter views based on attributes that are similar to each other or get right into specifics a very organic and flexible way.
In Leopard coverflow now offers you to seamlessly browse documents, videos and audio in one interface. This is at best just a great visual interface. Still I don't think that text searching based on file name, file type etc is enough. We need a better way to tag and organize our media other than the standard and static heirachy of folders.
I haven't yet seen a next generation era of browsing and organizing your digital media in an operating system that I think is possible.
I would love to hear any thoughts about this or links to software that does this kind of thing.
I have only found 'bloated' management systems like Softimage's Alienbrain.
http://www.softimage.com/products/alienbrain/
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