Thinking about the format

So...

I think a few things.

I have decided I think it would be nice if everything that is work was considered work. That is to say. If I have made a rendering that should exist as something that could be separately looked at or as part of the greater project it was actually made for. On that note, I think everything should have a few core properties, including date and others.

Properties: Notes

1. Title: A unique name for a specific element
2. Date: This would probably be start to finish date and things would generally be ordered by finish date unless a separate ordering date property was mentioned.
3. Content: This would be images or movies or other files. Just core content.
4. Description: This would be a quick description about the project and perhaps broken up.
   
1. Client
2. Context
   
3. Role
   
4. Goals
5. Issues
5. Containing projects: Projects that contain this work such as classes, or larger projects.
6. Contained projects: Projects that lie within this work. Such as a render, within the larger project of an automotive concept pitch.
7. Tools used: just a listing of the tools used. Both ideologically and technically.

I am sure there are a lot more interesting data classes I could have but those are the immediately obvious ones to me. Please add comments to the post if you have anything to say about this.

After an information model is built I need to be able to access the data online through pages using XML as my data language and CSS to store the layout preferences. Visually I will need the folio to be quite nice and I will need it to be able to deal with a wide selection of asset types without breaking.

Lastly I need to be able to generate smart groups based on all sorts of pre-definable and viewer definable constraints. For instance, someone would like to be able to view all the projects where I used a certain tool in the last year. Another example would be when I want to create special subset folios for a specific client. I want to be able to make selection groups that I can put links to without a problem and without any changes to the visual format.

It does not sound like something that is hard but it might need a specialized piece of software. At the moment I know of a package that can do the data modeling but it can not store my images and I am not sure how well it deals with being accessed by other websites online.
The software is called Dabble and it has free to use component.

Please leave any suggestions or comments you may have.