Deb Flanslow, one of the maintainers of the DAM Directory, has written an article describing the recent addition of a metadata standards section to the guide:
“So many standards, so little time! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place to browse the most common metadata standards …
Continue reading »Writing on LinkedIn, Mike Doane has published an article with the title Can taxonomy survive the Trough of Disillusionment? In the item, he discusses the recent featuring of Enterprise Taxonomy and Ontology Management on the Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle. Mike speculates whether taxonomy can survive its inclusion in the …
Continue reading »Writing on his Tame Your Assets blog, Ian Matzen published an article last week: Are You a Digital Asset Hoarder or a Digital Curator? The thesis of the article is that defaulting to a ‘never delete’ policy for managing your digital asset collection is not an optimal strategy because of …
Continue reading »Last month, Lisa Grimm wrote an article for CMSWire: DAM Expands Its Reach in the Enterprise. Amongst other topics, the item describes how DAM has incrementally moved into areas which used to be the preserve of ECM (Enterprise Content Management):
“Some argue DAM is creeping into the space …
Continue reading »This is the follow-up item to the first part of How Different Will DAM Be In 2030 which discusses Martin Wilson’s article for Information Age: 7 predictions for digital asset management in 2030. In this piece, I will consider the remaining predictions 4-7.
4. Users will demand streamlined simplicity…
Continue reading »Martin Wilson, of Asset Bank has written an article for Information Age: 7 predictions for digital asset management in 2030. The item has some similarities with Toby Martin’s piece which I discussed a couple of months ago (albeit the latter is about the medium term future of DAM …
Continue reading »Over the last few years, while working with enterprise clients, a common theme has been emerging in relation to their corporate taxonomies and the governance strategies applied to them (or lack thereof in both cases, as I will explain). The catalyst for this has often been integration between their DAM …
Continue reading »I have read a few articles etc recently which advance the currently widely held opinion that DAM is exclusively a marketing concern. This is not one I share (although I will acknowledge that, at present, marketing people are the largest single group of DAM users I come into contact with). …
Continue reading »In his Bits On Blocks blog, Antony Lewis has written an article titled: The emergence of blockchains as Activity Registers about the two different roles Blockchains play. For those unfamiliar with the term, blockchains are the distributed ledger technologies used to record transactions in commodity digital assets (aka ‘cryptocurrencies’) …
Continue reading »Readers may have noticed that we are now syndicating events from the DAM Guru Events Calendar on DAM News (in addition to Tim Strehle’s Planet DAM aggregated feed). The latest events are included on the sidebar to the right and there is a dedicated resources page with a longer list. …
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 »David Diamond has released another book titled: Metadata For Content Management as a follow-up from DAM Survival Guide. The new publication does not specifically refer to Digital Asset Management because David says he wants the topics discussed to be relevant to all types of system that mange content (i.e. …
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