DAM News Round-Up – 25th November 2024
A selection of DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced by the DAM News editorial team.
How to Write a Comprehensive RFP for Digital Asset Management Systems
This recent post from French DAM software provider Wedia takes a closer look at constructing an RFP (Request for Proposal) for DAM. The article provides a number of practical tips and considerations for those looking to purchase a DAM system, including defining your organisation’s pain points, needs and objectives, ensuring that your users and stakeholders are involved, and determining long-term goals. A breakdown of the structure and contents of a typical RFP for DAM is also included, along with a free downloadable template (email registration required).
What can we expect from Digital Asset Management in 2025?
Digital Asset Management platform provider ResourceSpace gaze into their crystal ball and provide a number of predictions for next year’s DAM industry trends. As you might expect, AI is at the top of the list, with a rise in MarTech stack integrations following. According to the article, we can also expect to see a further decline in on-premise DAM installations, and a general increase in collaboration and interaction with the DAM system as an integral component in the day-to-day operations of your organisation, including resource commenting, tagging and image editing.
DAM vendor Orange Logic highlight the importance of findability and how the issue of disparate, undiscoverable digital content is often a key driver behind the decision to invest in a DAM system. However, a DAM system’s capabilities go far beyond this basic requirement and offer a host of features and functions that can streamline content, marketing and brand operations, including Digital Rights Management (DRM) for licensing, compliance and governance, asset usage tracking for building contextual meaning between related content, automation, and transformation for distribution across multiple channels.
10 Things on the 14th November: AI, Taxonomies, Metadata and More!
Tracy Forzaglia, also known as Mod Librarian, presents her regular goodie-bag of all things taxonomic. Among this month’s highlights are Connor Cantrell on succeeding in information management, Lisa Grimm on the ‘librification’ of DAM demographics and its effect on salaries, Gary Carlson’s piece on AI, Ontologies and Chatbots, Nate Davis on what makes Information Architecture unique from Taxonomy, Ontology and Content Strategy, and Andreas Blumauer’s podcast on the Enterprise Semantic Layer.
Metadata tagging – best practices
This blog post from DAM solutions provider Fotoware‘s Amalie Widerberg provides a number of best practice tips for metadata tagging. With a brief descriptive overview of tagging, guidance includes creating taxonomies for controlled vocabularies, using AI-driven auto-tagging, employing metadata-driven workflows and macros, and integrating with third-party data management tools such as PIM (Product Information Management).
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