The W3C Digital Asset Management Ontology Group (chaired by Aaron Bradley, Emily Kolvitz, Matthew Patulski and Spencer Harris) has a conference call tomorrow (5th June) at 10am ET. The call is accessible via https://zoom.us/j/8365763105. The group was started last year and its purpose is discuss, create …
Continue reading »Over the last year or so, I have been reading a number of articles about Content Services, a term allegedly coined by analysts Gartner (although I have my doubts as to its true provenance). A few weeks ago, I discussed Magan Arthur’s article about Business Object Management where it was …
Continue reading »Yaochong Chen who is currently a student on the DAM post-graduate (MA) course at King’s College in London has written an article about the lack of DAM software platforms in China:
“Paradoxically, although many DAM Chinese scholars like me are passionate about bringing these amazing ideas into Chinese …
Continue reading »ECM and DAM commentator, Magan Arthur has recently written an article which he has titled: The End of Digital Content Management and the Need for Business Object Management. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it, however, I do concur with a great deal of what he says. It …
Continue reading »Today, we are launching an industry consortium to research and discuss the role of Digital Asset Supply Chains with a view to deriving both some standards and technology that can be applied to make the theories explored become a reality. Digital Asset Supply Chain (DASC) projects have become increasingly prevalent …
Continue reading »Earlier this month, I wrote an article describing how I believe the DAM software business is sleepwalking into a subservient integrator/channel partner model which will have undesirable consequences for innovation (and therefore the sustainability) of this technology sector. At the end of that piece, I said I would write a …
Continue reading »I have written a feature article for DAM News about the risks (as I see them) to the financial stability and long-term survival of the DAM software market based on a number of trends I have seen gradually emerging largely as a result of the use of cloud technology. I …
Continue reading »Recently, DAM vendor, Widen announced they were shuttering their DAM Lite product, SmartImage:
“We are grateful for all the support we’ve received from our Smartimage customers. However, Smartimage will be ending May 25, 2018. This is a strategic decision Widen (Smartimage parent company) has made to ensure we …
Continue reading »Back in November, we announced that we were reviving the DAM Salary Survey with the (gratefully received and much appreciated) assistance of Elizabeth Keathley and Deb Fanslow.
“All responses are anonymous and you are not asked for your name, nor email address etc. There are 35 questions, …
Continue reading »Carol Thomas my DAM Guru Program (DGP) colleague has recently published a series of questions and answers on the DGP blog from our members who attended the Insight Exchange Network (IEN) conference ‘The Digital Assets & Content Leadership Exchange’, that took place in New York, this January:
“Though this …
Continue reading »Last Friday, we reported that venture capital funded DAM vendor, Bynder had bought up WebDAM from their previous owners, microstock media library, Shutterstock. The irony of a DAM vendor being sold a fairly pedestrian DAM system by a photo library (rather than the other way round) will probably not …
Continue reading »Some news announced today is that Cloud DAM vendor Bynder have acquired WebDAM from Shutterstock (who also bought them from the original founders four years ago). There is more information here:
“When offered the chance to work together, we agreed. It was clear our combined teams could go …
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