Longer-term DAM News readers might recall that the (now defunct) DAM Foundation used to run an annual salary survey where digital asset managers (i.e. those responsible for administering collections of digital assets) were invited to provide details of their remuneration package so that some analysis could be carried out into …
Continue reading »I have written a feature article for Digital Asset News entitled Blockchains Are The Transactional Internet – Not The Internet of Money which critically evaluates the description ‘Internet of Money’ and proposes an alternative term which I contend is both more accurate and has greater potential for the development and …
Continue reading »I have written a feature article for DAM News on the use of AI in combination with digital asset supply chains (which seems to be the hot topic of the day at present).
“DAM vendors who are seeking to gain some kind of competitive advantage with their use of …
Continue reading »A W3C Digital Asset Management Industry Business Ontology community group has recently been started and is chaired by Emily Kolvitz and Aaron Bradley:
“The mission of Digital Asset Management Business Ontology Community Group is to propose, discuss, create and maintain extensions to schema.org related to the Digital Asset Management …
Continue reading »In the last few months, we have seen a marked increase in the interest in Digital Asset Supply Chain projects and (to a lesser extent) Creative Operations Management. This is something we have talked about a lot on DAM News quite a lot, but the recent spike in demand …
Continue reading »Dutch vendor, WoodWing have released Swivle which is a ‘DAM Lite’ solution to complement their more advanced Content DAM solution, Elvis. I gather the name is some clever play on words using a reverse form of ‘Elvis’, unfortunately, this doesn’t translate entirely successfully (into colloquial UK English, at least). …
Continue reading »We have recently made the premium accounts on our DAM Vendor directory free of charge. All existing registered users have been upgraded. Those who have paid for a premium account subscription (which has not expired) should have been issued refunds or a copy of the 2016 vendor pricing survey as …
Continue reading »Héctor Ugarte has written a paper, with the title: A more pragmatic Web 3.0: Linked Blockchain Data which brings together a number of different themes which we have explored on Digital Asset News and DAM News recently. As such, this might be of interest to those who are considering how …
Continue reading »We are currently considering running another DAM News vendor pricing survey to be published in 2018. This will be similar to the one we released last year (copies of which are still available). The previous study was supported by 16 vendors who all contributed data: Asset Bank, Brandfolder, Brandworkz, …
Continue reading »In the second part of my article on the role of blockchains and Content Digital Asset Management, I have examined some non-fintech oriented uses of blockchains (of which there are quite a lot more than many people might realise). In addition, I analyse the risks of using blockchain technologies …
Continue reading »I have written the first of a two-part article on the features section of Digital Asset News, Blockchains: Catalysts For Innovation In Content Digital Asset Management. The piece explains what blockchains are (including their historical context) and how they are more like databases than many might realise. The wider …
Continue reading »Spencer Harris, who a number of DAM News readers will know from his participation in various DAM-related LinkedIn groups and his contribution to the excellent New Jersey DAM meetup group webinars about metadata automation last year has written an initial review of Bynder’s recently released Orbit DAM system. The …
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