DAM News Round-Up – 9th September 2024
A selection of DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced by the DAM News editorial team.
Empowering DAM Users: The UX and Training Imperative
This concise and practical post from archivist and DAM manager Caroline Donadio highlights the importance of the user experience within a DAM system, and how the correct approach can empower users to fully leverage its benefits. Caroline explains how users accustomed to the immediacy of searching via Google are required to adopt a more nuanced approach in order to gain comparative results from their DAM. Advice includes implementing a user-centric taxonomy, promoting training materials, building trust, and fostering continuous user experience improvements by listening to your users and addressing their concerns.
Sustainable Tech: A new era of Digital Responsibility and how DAM plays a crucial role
How green is your DAM is the question posed by Linda Nygård in this recent article from DAM software provider QBank. With a brief description of the key components of sustainable technology such as climate change, consumer demand and regulation, Linda presents a number of ways in which DAM systems can help to reduce their impact on the environment by streamlining workflows and optimising content lifecycle management to consume less resources.
Understanding UGC Usage Rights: What Marketers Must Know
As user generated content (UGC) continues to play a key role in digital marketing strategies via videos, photos, reviews and social media, it’s important to have a firm understanding of the associated usage rights, licensing and copyright restrictions. This blog post from FADEL highlights a number of legal issues that can land you in hot water, along with a series of best practice tips for managing and acquiring the appropriate licenses and preparing your organisation to fully engage with UGC.
Protecting Enterprise Data: Advanced Malware Scanning Strategies
Partly related to DAM, this article from digital consultant Lindsay Sullivan explores the ways in which information management specialists can take advantage of machine learning and AI to protect their digital ecosystem and its precious content. The post presents a number of available options for scanning ingested assets for threats and malicious content, including cloud-based services, on-premise applications and API-based solutions.
Artifact Photography for Museums: Key principles by Daniel Lindskog
Digital Asset Management vendor Fotoware discuss how Swedish archaeological photographer Daniel Lindskog is working to establish a framework for artefact photography, and how the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) industries can assist in achieving higher quality standards and consistency. Daniel’s framework includes 100% white backgrounds, clean unobstructed shots of the object only, accurate and consistent metadata, and efficient collection management.
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