ResourceSpace roadmap - Give us your suggestions

[Joseph Brooke]

Hi everyone,

The next major release of ResourceSpace will be version 11.0, you can visit our roadmap of features coming in this version here: https://www.resourcespace.com/roadmap 

We would like to hear what you, our community, would like to see in the release after this. If you have a new feature you would like us to add, a change to existing functionality or an area for us to improve on then please let us know in this thread.

All of your responses will be considered and the more popular requests will have a higher chance of being worked on.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Joseph

[Jeff Nova]



Hi there!

Much gratitude for the gift of ResourceSpace and all the serious work put into it. 🙏

I have an odd request: use OpenCLIP instead of (or as an option to) CLIP, as CLIP doesn’t have a commercial-friendly license.

Thanks for your consideration!

Jeff

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Hi everyone,

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[Stuart Ball]

Hi Joseph,

Linking the facial recognition stuff to consent. So a consent can be related to a facial ID, or more importantly a non-consent (we need to track those) to a facial ID. We take photo's of young people (Sea cadets) so being able to link parental consents/non-consents to the face, will make our lives a lot easier.

Since we started collating photos etc about a year ago, we're now nearly 13K assets, which I appreciate isn't masses in the grand scheme, but it's made a huge difference to our ability to manage our collections

Kind Regards,

Stuart

Milton Keynes Sea Cadets

[José Fernandes]

First of all, thank you for creating and sharing such a wonderful piece of software as open source — it's truly appreciated.

Have you considered moving the open source repository to GitHub? Doing so could significantly boost its visibility and encourage greater community involvement and contributions.

Best,
José

[Jim Kirkpatrick]

Joseph,

Thank you for the chance to add input for future releases.

UI

• Add ⌘ + S / CTRL + S as a keyboard shortcut for Save
  
• When you click the + button to create a new Featured Collection the focus should move to the Collection Name field. Trips me up every time.
  
• Allow drag and drop re-ordering in collection sorted by other criteria than Collection Order
• In List View make the size of the thumbnail adjustable (small, medium, large) -or- add lightbox functionality when rolling over the thumbnail.

Browse Bar

• A full page version of the Featured Collections in the Browse Bar would make deeply nested collections more visible.
• Add the ability to create collection sets (nested collections) In Collections. We make extensive use of private collections to sort/prune before adding to Featured Collections.

I’m very thankful for the two AI plugins added recently. I had been doing face recognition offline in Lightroom before this. The face recognition plugin can find faces that I can’t even see (dark, under exposed image) but can confirm when I lighten the image. Adding the AI Smart Search gives our users the chance to search non metadata related concepts.

Jim Kirkpatrick

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Ability to externally share multiple collections as one bundle. Collections of collections and/or sub-collections essentially. (folders)

We have some resources available to contribute if this is of interest.

[Jim Kirkpatrick]

One additional item:

• Option to make Breadcrumbs sticky as one scrolls through a large collection.
  

I’ve tried to make this happen through CSS but never have been successful.

Jim

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[Marc]

It doesn't look like this is available in the current build, so it would be nice to have an option for guest/public links to be able select multiple photos in a shared collection for download and not force them to do it individually.

[Marc]

Another thing that would be nice to see is if trying to download multiple video files and it is over 1GB no error is displayed, it looks like it's stalled. An error would be good o alert the user.

[Dan Huby]

Hi Jeff,

The CLIP model used (ViT-B/32) was released under a MIT license and has no commercial restrictions.

https://github.com/openai/CLIP/blob/main/LICENSE

Dan

[Jeff Nova]

Oh my, you’re right! So I probed why OpenCLIP claims to be an “open source implementation of CLIP” and found that what they really meant is that they’re the “fully open and reproducible” implementation.

1. Training code and reproducibility - OpenAI released CLIP’s model weights and inference code, but didn’t release the full training pipeline or make it easy to reproduce their results from scratch. OpenCLIP provides complete training code.

2. Training data transparency - OpenAI trained CLIP on a proprietary dataset (WIT - WebImageText) of 400 million image-text pairs that they didn’t release. OpenCLIP trains on publicly available datasets like LAION-400M, LAION-2B, etc.

3. Ongoing development - OpenCLIP is actively maintained by the community with new architectures, training recipes, and improvements, while OpenAI’s CLIP is essentially a fixed release.

4. Multiple variants - OpenCLIP provides many different model sizes and architectures trained on various datasets, giving users more options.

So OpenCLIP’s claim is more about being the “open development” or “community-reproducible” version rather than implying CLIP isn’t open source!

J

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[Dan Huby]

That's right and we're only talking about the model itself, and we don't need to worry about future maintainability of that as it's not software (so vulnerabilities shouldn't be an issue).

If the model changes all the vectors need regenerating too so it's not something anyone would want to update often, if at all, and there'd be no reason to as it "just works".

It'd be pretty trivial to make the model a command line option for the python server if someone did want to change it.

The CLIP functionality is really MVP right now but the potential is enormous and we're definitely going to be doing some more work on this in the near future.

Dan

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[Trond Helge Rolland]

Hello Joseph et al

We're increasing our use of ResourceSpace and that of course means more suggestions/requirements/enhancement requests (pick your poison) from our users, one of them is the ability to browse between resources/images in a collection while in full screen mode (preferably using keyboard shortcuts). I don't think that's a feature that's available in the current version? Many of our images have a lot of details they want to compare, so going back and to full screen mode from each image gets tedious pretty quick.

Otherwise, excellent DAM tool, we compared a lot of different solutions and I/we really appreciate the approach you have to keep things easy to use and not least easy to administrate. 

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TH

[Dan Huby]

If you disable the "Lightbox Preview" plugin the full screen mode takes up the full page and you can then navigate using the left and right cursor keys.

Dan

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[ECIN]

First of all, thank you for Resourcespace and your work and development.
What would I like to see in the future?
A more flexible option for external data hosting (external storage) without always having to mount a data storage device such as a server or S3. I am thinking of FTP/SFTP, WebDAV or cloud share options such as Nextcloud.

[Steve]

Thanks for creating such a great product and all the effort put into making what it is today!

Integrate Tesseract OCR so documents could be processed for OCR on upload. 

Option to filter document extracted text to only allow a whitelist of characters (eliminate unwanted characters in the database).

Use mySQL Spatial for storing the resource map point coordinates; would allow for also adding a polygon map footprint for each resource and then more robust map searching.

Integrate the s3_storage plugin into the base code.

Option to convert certain file formats to another on upload and store the converted file, optionally, store the original file as an alternative file (such as converting HEIC images on upload to JPEG, etc.).

[Dan Huby]

Hi Steve,

I realised Tesseract OCR could work just like the Whisper plugin we recently added, so I've added a plugin just now.

https://www.resourcespace.com/knowledge-base/plugins/tesseract

That seems to be working well for scanned PDF files and it picks up bits of text in images too where present which I think is generally quite useful for automatic tagging.

On s3 storage do you mean just adding the plugin to the base code, or integrating it completely into the code so no plugin is needed? It's quite nice to keep things separate as plugins even in the base code, I find.

That last one "Option to convert certain file formats to another on upload and store the converted file, optionally, store the original file as an alternative file (such as converting HEIC images on upload to JPEG, etc.)." sounds just like the alternative file automatic creation we already have - https://www.resourcespace.com/knowledge-base/systemadmin/alternative-video-files

Dan

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[Steve]

Thanks for the Tesseract plugin, that should work well.

I agree that keeping the s3_storage plugin as a plugin would be best, but would be very helpful to add the plugin to the base code for native S3 storage access.

My thought with the option to convert certain file formats to another on upload and store the converted file would be for images, such as HEIC, that are not archival formats, in they could be converted to say TIFF or JPEG using ImageMagick and the original, uploaded file (say HEIC) could either be deleted or added as an alternative file, depending on a setting.  

It would also be helpful to have the option to upload geocoordinates (latitude/longitude) and the Map Zoom Level as part of the CSV Upload plugin.

Thanks, Steve

[Steve]

It would also be helpful to have the Admin, Manage Resources menu be available to those with 'd' permission with a filtered list of options.  Would help in the case where one person uploaded to Pending Submission and another person updates metadata.

Thanks, Steve

[Simon Annetts]

Thank you for all the work you do on ResourceSpace.

I would love to be able to collaborate and contribute more and have previously tried submitted bug reports and patches via your bug reports webpage, but have never had a response or known if you've even received them! Would you be open to the idea of switching to Github with it's rich support for issues and pull requests?

Many thanks

Simon