Question: I am researching CMS systems, something I know little about. I am an animator and generate large numbers of files and have many source files that I use. There are so many its become difficult to manage them all and keep some organization. Can someone suggest an Open Source CMS solution that could aid in organizing these files.

Thanks

Answer: 
Apparently, these systems are called "digital asset management systems" when they're not about text but about images.

An overview about open-source ones can be found [here](http://www.opensourcedigitalassetmanagement.org/)
[Razuna](http://www.razuna.org/) looks quite good, I'm looking for a similar solution - though i probably won't have trillions of textures files or something, I do have loads of .psd/.ai/.indd formats, which a number of systems offer thumbnail preview to a certain degree.

One thing to look out for is whether the system can handle/use/manipulate [IPTC](http://www.iptc.org/site/Home/) metadata, basically what this means is when metadata is embedded in an asset, the system can present that to you in a digestable format. An example of this is Google's Picassa which allows search indexing on this data. Also a number of stock asset sites both use and produce this data in their asset sets - so when you download an image for example, it comes pre-tagged with "woman, standing, smiling, photo, office" so you only have to add your own tags on top, for example "telecoms project, overview module".

Again, if you're generating a swathe of files from your output then it may depend on the nature of your file output as to what kind of versioning/management you need?

If, for example, you have output that is made up of a bunch of source files, some of which are program-specific and some of which are linked assets, then you might want to put the whole lot under version control ([PlasticSCM](http://www.plasticscm.com) or Subversion perhaps) and "exclude" graphic files by their file type. Then, use something like Razuna to upload, hold and display your graphic files.

I noticed with Razuna that you can organise things by category, and assign multiple categories - that is, you have 1 set of files but multiple views of them. That's why I liked Razuna, though to be honest the demo crapped out but it could've been because I changed email and profile data half way through the trial.

Interested to know how you go in your search and what you've found to be useful!