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Media Asset Credit

There are a few development projects on my plate right now which have me questioning how I have traditionally developed data-rich websites in Drupal. I’d like to share some specifics here, to see if anyone has any feedback about possible alternatives.

The project in question is for a digital image library with a robust set of metadata in conjunction with the images themselves. The dataset is reasonably large – 34,000+ images, and by the time you include the nodes for creators, works, locations, etc you have somewhere around 200,000 nodes in the system. However, a large chunk of these nodes are wrapped up in what I’m calling “credit” tables. The image at the top of this post illustrates the relationships.

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