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Chuckwalla v5 – Standard Edition: Server |
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The cornerstone of Chuckwalla v5 is an intelligent enterprise repository that controls otherwise unstructured rich media content including images, simple and compound documents, layouts, presentations, audio and video files, and more. The repository provides centralized storage, security, advanced search and retrieval, version control and asset transformation. This provides the ability to repurpose rich media content for various cross-media communication applications, including publishing, marketing/branding and e-learning. |
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Extensive File Format Support |
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While able to store any digital file, Chuckwalla v5 technology can intelligently recognize and manage a multitude of formats. Chuckwalla v5’s file ingest features include: format recognition, metadata extraction, automatic thumbnail and preview generation with watermarking capabilities. It manages all popular image formats, including: GIF, TIF, JPEG, PSD, EPS, BMP, DCS and more; drawing formats, including: Illustrator, Freehand, DXF, DWG, vector EPS; document formats including: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF; layout formats, including: Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign; multimedia formats, including: Virage VDF, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, WAV, AIFF, MP3 and web formats, including: HTML, XML, Flash. Elements of compound document files like Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign are recognized, enabling the embedded textual and image content to be repurposed and re-used independently from the original file. |
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Full Text Indexing |
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Virtually any format that contains text content is indexed. This allows users to search on words and phrases contained within documents. Results are ranked by relevancy and the context text displayed. This powerful feature alleviates the need to add redundant metadata to files containing text. |
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Metadata and Searching |
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Chuckwalla uses Microsoft SQL to store the related metadata,
supporting unlimited custom metadata fields that can be shared across
the enterprise. Users can perform federated searches across the entire
repository or refine the search based on one or more specific criteria.
Searches can be saved for quick retrieval of commonly requested
assets, formats or information.
Chuckwalla v5 supports Adobe® Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). XMP
allows a user to embed metadata into a file itself. Through XMP,
Chuckwalla v5 supports the International Press Telecommunications
Council (IPTC) and Dublin Core (DC) standards.
Search results are ranked by relevancy and include text details
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Organization and Security |
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A customizable, logical folder hierarchy organizes assets and controls access security. Collections (associated groups of assets) and Asset Reference metadata fields allow additional, flexible organization of assets. Assets can be checked into the repository or left in place and cataloged. Cataloging is useful for large file groups, like video servers or dvd jukeboxes.
Users are organized into both Chuckwalla Internal and Microsoft Active Directory groups. Users and groups have read, write, delete or no access to various folders in the system. Watermarked previews and rights-descriptive metadata increase the security of content stored in the system. |
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Delivery and Transformation |
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Assets can be checked out or downloaded in their original format, web-ready jpeg or transformed by the optional Adobe Graphics Server. Extracted, embedded metadata that has been modified in the system can be re-embedded on download. Web download, ftp, automatic email and direct transfer to Microsoft Commerce Server are all supported. |
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Architecture
Chuckwalla v5 has a multi-tiered architecture. Running on a Windows 2003/2000 Server, the Chuckwalla Object Server and Application Server are the core of the system. The Chuckwalla Preview Generator and Text Indexer services process files automatically at check-in. Files are stored in a secure NTFS repository managed by the Chuckwalla Object Server. Metadata is stored and accessed in a Microsoft SQL database by the Chuckwalla Application Server. Chuckwalla Clients send requests to the Chuckwalla Object Server to store, retrieve, and view multimedia assets. The Chuckwalla SDK provides a programmatic interface to the server and is used to integrate other systems with Chuckwalla v5.
There are three kinds of Client applications:
- Chuckwalla NetClient based on .NET technology, for Web browsers running on Macintosh or Windows, uses http protocol to access Chuckwalla v5.
- Chuckwalla Desktop for Macintosh OS 10 is a native client application that uses the tcp/ip protocol to access Chuckwalla v5.
- Chuckwalla Desktop for Windows XP/2003/2000 is a native client application that uses the uses tcp/ip protocol to access Chuckwalla v5.
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Integration
The following applications are currently integrated with Chuckwalla v5:
Microsoft SQL 2005/2000: This industry standard Relational Database (RDB) is used by Chuckwalla to store asset metadata. This metadata can be accessed via Chuckwalla or directly in the RDB.
Adobe Graphics Server: Image assets can be transformed immediately prior to downloading in the Chuckwalla NetClient.
Adobe InDesign: The Chuckwalla v5 InDesign Plug-In enables the Chuckwalla Server to recognize the geometry of InDesign documents and provide access directly to text and placed images.
Adobe InDesign and Quark Xpress: The Chuckwalla v5 InDesign Plug-in and Quark Xtension enable the Chuckwalla Server to recognize the geometry of layout documents and provide access directly to placed images, text boxes, text stories and groups.
Chuckwalla provides access to elements of the layout files including text and placed images
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