UK newspaper, the Guardian recently announced that they had released their new in-house image management system as an open source application. There is an article about this by one of their developers, Sébastien Cevey:
“For about a year, a small dedicated team has been building the Guardian’s new …
Continue reading »The Reel Thing technical symposium sponsored by AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) is running from August 20th to 22nd in Los Angeles later this month. The event deals with current thinking and practical examples of developments in the fields of preservation, restoration and media conservation. If moving image archival …
Continue reading »In the last few weeks, there have been a few different articles and videos which cover Digital Assets in less task-specific terms and discuss the topic in a wider business context. Some are better than others. The first of these: The three steps to becoming a ‘hypergrowth’ company in the …
Continue reading »Last week, Canto, released an upgraded ‘X’ edition of their long-standing Cumulus DAM application. There are three major new features:
As should be clear to those with some experience of the DAM software market, …
Continue reading »Last week, Daminion announced an upgrade to version 4.0 of their client/server desktop DAM solution. As seems to be the convention currently, none of the updates are likely to have anyone falling off their chair in shock and amazement, but there are a decent number and some of their peers …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, Bynder, announced some updates to their SaaS DAM platform. As is the case with this kind of vendor news currently, the level of innovation is not exactly sending the graph into a frenzied state, but these features may hold more interest for some people:
About six weeks ago on DAM News, we reported some problems that Flickr ran into with their automated tag suggestion feature and noted that there were both perils and politics involved with this type of exercise. Last week, with the revelation that Google had catalogued the images of two people …
Continue reading »The Special Libraries Association (SLA) are holding an open meeting on 15th July at 12pm ET that will present their newly formed Digital Asset Management section, which is co-chaired by Deb Fanslow and John Horodyski:
“This session will introduce DAM, its concepts and foundational elements. (The recording and …
Continue reading »This week the DAM EU conference was held in London. As with previous years, I was unable to attend this event due to some client upgrade roll-outs that I get co-opted into troubleshooting around this time, although I was able to get along to the London DAM meetup in the …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, Adobe officially consolidated their stock media ambitions with the launch of Adobe Stock. As reported on The Verge, this is the culmination of several manoeuvres and acquisitions in the last twelve months., in particular, the fact that you do not need to leave Adobe Creative …
Continue reading »On CMSWire, yesterday, there was an article by Elizabeth Keathley from Atlanta Metadata Authority: DAM Positions Are Going Unfilled. The item is about the difficulties some firms are finding hiring Digital Asset Managers to take charge of their DAM initiatives. Elizabeth identifies three different causes of this problem:…
Continue reading »Andreas Mockenhaupt Director of Professional Services at DAM vendors, Canto has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Why Interoperability Standards Are So Critical To The Future Of Digital Asset Management. The article describes the OASIS-sponsored CMIS4DAM standard which has been in-progress since September 2013:
“The concept behind …
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