Contain your excitement everyone, that’s right, it’s another DAM solution to join the mere 199 others that have sufficient interest in this market to fill out a free profile with Capterra (and 87 who were somewhat more motivated to participate in our own directory with all of its irritatingly difficult …
Continue reading »Martin Wilson, a director of Bright Interactive (the developers of the Asset Bank DAM solution) has contributed an article for DAM News: AI In DAM: The Challenges And Opportunities. This is related to the Google VISION API review piece I wrote recently, as well as an item …
Continue reading »Recently, while researching more blockchain-related innovations, I came across Mediachain. This is a protocol intended to make it easier for distributed applications to access provenance information about digital assets in a de-centralised manner (i.e not held on a pre-designated server). Any modifications to either the asset essence or its …
Continue reading »Ricky Patten, of Australian DAM resellers and consulting group, DataBasics has written an in-depth article about digital assets and their relationship with museum Collections Management, with specific reference to the SPECTRUM specification established by Collections Trust.
“In my experience, the reasoning behind an organisation implementing a DAMS …
Continue reading »Earlier this year, we invited those DAM vendors who have a listing on our DAM vendor directory to participate in an anonymous pricing survey and we asked for initial requests for interest. A month ago, we sent a circular to those who had indicated they might be willing to do …
Continue reading »Over the last few weeks, there have been a series of press releases from various tech firms, notably Google and Adobe about technologies which claim to automate the image cataloguing process. A few DAM vendors have already integrated the Google Cloud VISION API which is product-agnostic and designed to be …
Continue reading »There is an article that was highlighted on the DAM News LinkedIn Group by Don Gaster earlier today by Richard Butlin with the title: Time to Look Beyond Digital Asset Management. This is one of these items where I think the title is wrong and I disagree with quite …
Continue reading »Last year, I wrote an article about the future role of data storage exchanges where capacity could be traded and considered how they might work and what risks they might introduce. While researching some of our other recent feature articles, I came across something called MaidSafe which appears set …
Continue reading »North Plains, the current owners of the Xinet DAM solution have announced some upgrades to this long-standing DAM platform. The details on the press are a bit light, but the key items North Plains have chosen to highlight are:
In the second part of this article series: Re-Defining The Meaning And Scope Of Digital Assets – Part 2, I continue to examine the changing meaning and scope of the term ‘digital assets’. In this piece, I analyse digital assets as commodities, cryptocurrencies, blockchains and also consider some more …
Continue reading »Romney Whitehead, writing on her own Borrowed Insight blog, makes the case that organisations should have a dedicated DAM solution rather than seeking to incorporate them into other applications like PIM, WCM etc:
“With a PIM, or even a CMS, the clue is in the name. They manage …
Continue reading »I have written a two-part feature article for DAM News entitled Re-Defining The Meaning And Scope Of Digital Assets. This continues my examination of the themes in the item from last month, Appreciating The Value Of Digital Assets but I have gone into far more detail about distinctions between …
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