The New Orleans Photo Alliance are holding a workshop seminar on Digital Asset Management and Workflow between 11am and 1pm (Central Time) on June 16th. The event is aimed at photographers, especially those who maybe new to DAM and digital workflows in general:
“Join us Saturday June 16 for …
Continue reading »Photographic Center NW (PCNW) is hosting a workshop on ‘Storing & Organising Your Digital Photographs’ to run on 23rd – 24th June 2012:
“One of the biggest challenges facing a photographer today is the management and storage of their digital assets. For many photographers, they are now asked to …
Continue reading »ReadWriteWeb.com covers ‘Boom Town’, an HTML5 game that has been simultaneously offered on Apple App Store, Android Google Play and Facebook. The game itself sounds pretty dull, but I’m not a massive gamer and the real point of covering this story here on DAM News is that demonstrates how the …
Continue reading »Open Source .NET Web Content Management specialists, EPi Server have partnered with inRiver to add a Product Information Management (PIM) module to their popular WCM platform:
“Product management can be a real headache for online marketers and merchandizers with complex product assortments that are sold through multiple channels in …
Continue reading »This Arstechnica article by Matthew Lasar highlights the fact that the original prototypical new media development tool developed by Apple, HyperCard is 25 years old today. Below, Matthew describes his early experiences using it:
“I opened the app and read the instructions. HyperCard allowed you to create “stacks” of …
Continue reading »One of our featured vendors, Picture Park have updated their flagship DAM solution to version 8.3. The new edition has improved derivative file support, these are what some users and vendors used to call ‘surrogate’ files and might typically include alternative resolutions or some other modifications such as colour space …
Continue reading »One of our featured vendors, Extensis, have published a whitepaper: “Enterprise Digital Asset Management Technology”. The report covers various enterprise oriented topics such as integrating with Active Directory, APIs, and scaling up using clustered batch processing or transcoding facilities to generate proxies and associated assets in multiple formats:
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Continue reading »Analyst, Forrester, have published a report on their assessment of the DAM market:
“In Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation of the DAM market, we identified 12 significant vendors in the space — ADAM Software; Adobe; Autonomy, an HP company; Canto; celum; EMC; Extensis, a Celartem company; MediaBeacon; North Plains; OpenText; Widen …
Continue reading »Major DAM vendor supplier, Amazon Web Services present this webinar on how to use AWS to deliver large scale digital media solutions using their AWS Cloud platform:
“With the advent of digital media, 3D, HD, animated video, and an expanding array of internet devices, Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies …
Continue reading »Irina Guseva, writing on econtentmag.com considers the ‘intersection between DAM and WCM’ in this article:
“It is important for organizations to start realizing that DAM really is more than just a storage of assets and that WCM’s primary function is not media and digital asset management. If your incumbent …
Continue reading »The number of vendors linking their DAM systems to SharePoint continues to increase as the platform consolidates its position as ECM platform of choice amongst corporate IT managers. One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark are the latest to participate in this trend. Today, they have announced a SharePoint connector …
Continue reading »Deb Hunt, writing on the FUMSI site describes some unique skills that digital librarians can bring to a DAM implementation. These include:
