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I've been given the delightful task of taking all of the tapes I've shot this past year (lots) and creating a new database for them for logging/easy retrieval. There's currently an archive system in place which allows users to log in remotely and either insert new tape information, edit old information or just look up what is on each tape.
The current options are divided into two types of potential input - it can either be a text bar (text doesn't have to be separated by comma etc) OR a drop down menu with only a few limited options and no way of adding new ones (the guy who built the page left years ago apparently).
In terms of search functions you can type into a search bar and there is a tick box for an Exact Match which is hugely ineffective simply due to End User Idiocy and the poorly detailed way in which the tapes get logged.
The plan is ultimately to add the entire library of many thousands of tapes (thankfully this won't fall down to me!) to the new system as well as the footage I've shot myself this year which is acting as kind of a test run to see how effective it could be.
What I'd like though is to know of any software that allows me to use tags in a similar way to the LFGSS search options. Say for example I had a tape which was called "John Smith Interview" featured a man called John Smith being interviewed in... Chelsea Harbour so there were set-ups of the interviewee, GVs of the harbour, then the interview. I'd like a way of "Tagging" what was on the tape so that if someone needed to search for "boats" or "yachts" or... "seagulls"(!) it would flag this tape as featuring that footage (in the GVs of the harbour). Currently the search feature wouldn't return any of those results and the only way you would know the tape existed is if you typed in "John Smith" which as you can imagine isn't a very effective way of finding footage..
So, software suggestions? Things to look out for? Can the end database be accessed online? I've never done anything like this before so any pointers much appreciated...
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