In part one of this two part series, I discussed how the level of innovation in the Digital Asset Management industry has reached a plateau recently which the evidence suggests it cannot now advance beyond. I made reference to Jeff Lawrence’s CMSWire article as it contained an aggregated selection of …
Continue reading »DAM Foundation have recently announced that they are now testing DAM vendors for their ten core characteristics, based on an article Elizabeth Keathley wrote last year. The ten attributes are formalised in this article by Mark Davey. They have checked and approved about 16 different vendor products …
Continue reading »This is part 1 of a series of articles about DAM Innovation.
On CMSWire this week, Jeff Lawrence has given an overview of various DAM vendor roadmaps for 2015 via two articles. There are some interesting aspects to this, but for those interested in critically analysing our sector with a …
Continue reading »Back in April of this year, we highlighted some research that was being carried out by Jessica Bushey of the University of British Columbia into Digital Photographs And Trustworthiness Of Social Media Platforms. Last week, Jessica emailed participants a copy of the survey summary report. The results are broadly in-line …
Continue reading »A couple of weeks ago, CMSWire ran an article by Jeff Lawrence of Celerity with the title: Using DAM Content Migration to Maximize Asset Value. It has taken me a while to find the time to catch up and read this item but DAM migration is a subject I …
Continue reading »According to VentureBeat yesterday, Adobe have acquired stock photo library, Fotolia for US $800m. They cite the following statement from the official Adobe announcement:
“Adobe today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Fotolia, a leading marketplace for stock content. Fotolia will be …
Continue reading »DAM Vendor, Canto, have announced version 9.2 of their long-standing DAM solution, Cumulus. The key feature revisions are:
This is the quote …
Continue reading »Anna Cotton Head of Marketing for DAM vendor, Brandworkz has contributed a feature article for DAM News: DAM Simple: How To Select The Right Digital Asset Management System If You Are A Marketer. The article covers a few pointers about ensuring the vendor you deal with understands what …
Continue reading »Deborah Fanslow, has provided us with the eagerly anticipated (and very well received) second part of her DAM News feature article: Who Needs a DAM Librarian? In Part II: Information Professionals: A Field Guide she continues her detailed analysis by describing the disciplines and fields that information management is …
Continue reading »On DAM Guru last week, there was an interesting interview with Laurel Calsoni, who you can follow on Twitter @DigitalArchivst. The item is a good one and Laura makes a number of points I would agree with. There is one, in particular, in answer to the question “what …
Continue reading »A story which has been doing the rounds recently is this post on the Google Research blog. The item describes some AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques Google have used to automatically generate image captions. There is the de rigueur line about a picture being worth a thousand words (can anyone …
Continue reading »Cloud DAM Vendor, WebDAM have recently sent us a copy of a paper they have written about how to measure DAM ROI. I must admit, I normally fear getting issued with these documents and asked for an opinion on them, perhaps only slightly less than that other tool …
Continue reading »