Digital Asset Management

I'm looking for a recommendation.

I run the Journalism Lab here at my school and our photo management is in sore need of repair. This year, I installed a copy of iPhoto Library Manager on one of our machines, created multiple iPhoto Libraries for different projects, and showed students how to use iPhoto.

That's not working. We're run into severe permissions problems, corrupted libraries and the fact that only one user can access the photos at a time, from only one computer. Yuck.

Here's what I want:

1. Students should be able to add photos to the library, organize photos, add keywords, create albums/collections, and export photos.
2. They should be able to do this from any machine on the network.
3. More than one student should be able to do so at a time.
4. The library should be easy to back up.
5. The solution should work for mulitple years, allowing me to archive a year's worth of photos easily. We would like to revisit photos in these archives, but only periodically.

Can anyone recommend a solution? We run Panther now, on a mix of G3 iMacs, G4 PowerMacs and G4 iMacs. The school's servers run Windows and we use Active Directory for User Management.

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