Rails - Jan 2006 - Photo Tracking: Releases, Subjects, Versions, Metadata, etc

Hey all,

I''m brainstorming my next app and want to make sure I''m not
doing work
that someone has already done (probably better than me!).

I''m a high school teacher and the school''s web/print designer.
I need
an organized way to track my media.  99% of the time that is going to 
mean photos, but we also shoot the occasional video or take audio 
recording.  For each of these records I need to track:
- The subjects that appear in them
- The media release status of each subject
- The original media itself (thank you file column!!!)
- Additional versions of the media (thumbnails, jpgs of RAW images, 
alternate codec video/audio, etc)
- Other metadata (previous usages, timestamping, author, etc)

Then I want to put together controllers that allow actions like...
- Easily link directly to media in the archive
- Easily upload new media
- List media containing a specified subject or subjects
- Create a "game" where an authenticated user identifies subjects in
the
media (mostly to get our security guards, who know the name of every 
kid, to identify them for me!)
- Other obvious administrative actions (delete, edit, etc)

Has anyone done something similar?  Anyone interested?  I''d be happy to
modify/extend an existing project, collaborate on a new project, or just 
have some beta testers.

Thanks,
Jeff

I plan to build something similar to what you described, but I''m new to
Ruby on Rails.  Keep me posted on your progress.  I hope to get started 
in about 4 weeks.

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