National Rugby League
Client Challenge
The National Rugby League maintains a large library of still photography from each of their matches, shot by photographers employed by the NRL. This image library was housed in a cloud-based Digital Asset Management system provided by a 3rd party, Wazee Media (Veritone). These images are cumbersome to upload and tag for indexing.
The project included creating a website that allowed the members of the league to search and download images in the Digital Asset Management system. Authorized users to be allowed to search the database and download selections from a WordPress interface via REST API.
Technology Stack
- AWS Elastic Computing
- Amazon S3
- JavaScript
- WordPress
- Wazee Digital (Veritone)
- json - Sports Data Group
LESSONS LEARNED
- Manage Scope Creep
- Server instances needed more memory
- Download lists required additional resources to compress for delivery
Results
- Uploader functions on desktop or mobile
- Thousands of images queued for upload completed successfully, no errors
- Saves time for photographers
- Makes game images available to media and member teams much sooner
EASY METADATA TAGS
Selections in the uploader provided by json feeds from 3rd party sports information providers - increased accuracy of metadata attached to images
ZERO FAILURES
The javascript uploader is capable of accepting a queue of hundreds of images. Images could share datasets or be coded individually. Testing with queues of five hundred images uploaded with zero failures.
PLATFORM AGNOSTIC
Full functionality on mobile, tablet and laptop/desktop devices. Device/platform agnostic system. MAC | WIN | Safari | Chrome | Edge | Firefox
HIGH AVAILABILITY
Amazon ECS dynamically managed server farm resources for additional availability as needed, in real time.