Welcome to Phraseanet’s documentation!¶

Open source DAM system¶

Phraseanet is a Digital Asset Management system (DAM for short) targeting the professionals needs. It’s created and maintained by the French company Alchemy.

Phraseanet can store, manage and share a wide range of digital resources such as images, videos, audio or office documents within working groups of any size.

As a 100% Web application, it runs in a modern web browser.

Built upon standard components, Phraseanet settles on Linux, OS X or Windows servers and is based on common software components such as MySQL, PHP or Apache. Other third-party software libraries participate to Phraseanet. Some of these are developed by Alchemy, while some others not.

About this documentation¶

This manual discusses about the administration, the utilisation and the advanced developments sitting on Phraseanet. A glossary introduces specific terms and concepts used in the application. Want to contribute? Great! Please see this section before beginning.

What’s new in version 3.8?¶

Here are the main changes in version 3.8:

• A new connection page
• The support of the authentication using third party suppliers
• The support of standardised inflection in the Phrasea engine
• New interface to manage the documentary structure fields
• Plenty graphical tweaks in Administration, Production
• The support of a stable version of Sphinx search engine

Need help?¶

Alchemy, editor of Phraseanet sells a range of services around the application.

The Phraseanet team spends part of his time in dedicate forums and groups. Please consult this page for a presentation of these groups.