The recently relaunched DAM News Vendor Directory has just been updated with a couple of new features to assist in narrowing down your vendor selection criteria. For those that missed the press release, you can read more about the new vendor directory at the following link.
https://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/vendors/introducing-the-new-dam-vendor-directory/
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Continue reading »Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB has written an article entitled: “Visual Information Retrieval: the Next challenge in Information Management“. Johannes discusses the reasons why non-text based search strategies are now more important than ever with the exponential rise in image or video digital content. He …
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Regular readers will recall that a few months ago, I reviewed MerlinOne’s NOMAD (NO MetAData) search tool which allows images to be found using text keywords searches without entering descriptive metadata.
Recently, I had the opportunity to check out an AI search tool developed by a Dutch firm called EMRAYS…
Continue reading »Whilst wandering through the once vibrant and bustling ghost town of DAM innovation, I recently came across an interesting little nugget caught amongst the tumbleweeds. Strangely familiar, yet subtly different from its common predecessors, 2dSearch is a project that’s aiming to resurrect the mother of unused features – the …
Continue reading »Last week, we interviewed CEO of MerlinOne, David Tenenbaum for DAM News. David has also contributed a feature article The Future of DAM and AI where he discusses some innovations his firm has been working on, specifically with reference to a technology called NOMAD (NoMetAData)
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Continue reading »As regular readers will be aware, I have been following various automated visual recognition tools for some time now and so far remain underwhelmed by the results (especially compared with the marketing hype that typically accompanies them). A few months back, I checked out the Google Vision API with some …
Continue reading »About six weeks ago on DAM News, we reported some problems that Flickr ran into with their automated tag suggestion feature and noted that there were both perils and politics involved with this type of exercise. Last week, with the revelation that Google had catalogued the images of two people …
Continue reading »This is an article in our series of ongoing discussion of Digital Asset Management Value Chains.
Search is another functional area within DAM which is growing in sophistication. In recent years, attention has focussed on simplifying search capabilities and making them easier for new or casual users. This has …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, are hosting a webinar on 10th August to demonstrate the enhanced image search features provided by plug-ins for their Canto Cumulus software.
“Modula4 demonstrates ImageSorter and Image Search, add-on products for Canto Cumulus that let you find images based on visual …
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My colleague Ralph Windsor has recently written an article for French DAM software provider Wedia. Entitled ‘Emerging Trends in DAM‘, this in-depth piece takes stock of the latest developments in Digital Asset Management, primarily focusing on the advent of artificial intelligence and its impact on automation, personalisation, …
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This week’s upcoming event is the first in a four-part online series exploring DAM and Artificial Intelligence from Henry Stewart Events. Taking place on 5th September at 11am (EDT), this free-to-attend course commences with a 75-minute session covering metadata as a foundational component of AI, including tips and techniques …
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A selection of DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced by the DAM News editorial team.
The 6 core metadata schemas explained
Although we often mention the fundamental importance of metadata in any DAM context, you may not be aware of the various established metadata schemas that are available (especially …
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