For various reasons, I was not able to make the New York leg of the Henry Stewart DAM trade show earlier this month. This has prompted me to consider what alternatives there are to making contact with other people in DAM and also to contemplate the value of these events …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have announced another integration with a third party niche solution provider. This time, it is ProofHQ who they have partnered with, who provide on-line content approval tools:
“By integrating the Widen Media Collective with the ProofHQ proofing solution, enterprise …
Continue reading »Those readers with good memories might recall there were some moves from standards organisation, OASIS, last year to establish a DAM metadata interoperability standard which could integrate the numerous media related metadata protocols encountered in DAM under the banner of CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services). As ever with achieving consensus …
Continue reading »Australian DAM integrators and consultants, DataBasics have written an article on their blog: Digital Asset Management (DAM) – Image Library Requirements Guideline which covers some key issues and questions to consider when implementing DAM. The questions include:
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a featured article for us: DAM Good? Yes, It Can Be! – How To Make Users Love Your Digital Asset Management System. The item was written by Neil Monahan, their Digital Marketing Manager and describes the importance of …
Continue reading »Project management and workflow vendor, AtTask have partnered with two DAM vendors, Widen and WebDAM. They appear to have deliberately selected both vendors as the DAM component of their strategy:
“Don’t torpedo your productivity or your creativity. AtTask has integrated with leading cloud DAM vendors, Widen and …
Continue reading »This was announced on David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary list and it should be of wider interest to others involved with Digital Asset Management also (especially those with a special interest in social media). Jessica Bushey of the University of British Columbia is conducting a survey as part of her Ph.D: …
Continue reading »Last week, Cloud Storage provider, Dropbox, announced they were launching a media sharing application called Carousel. This allows simplified browsing of images or video held in your account and (more importantly) it includes features to share this media with other users. Carousel is delivered as a mobile application …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have released 6.1 of their core brand asset management solution. This news was partly covered a couple of weeks ago by my co-contributor, but that dealt with their social collaboration module which was announced separately. The other aspects of 6.1 …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, we opened up a new dedicated site for Digital Asset Management Whitepapers at damwhitepapers.org. We have transferred all the DAM News reports into this repository and had some early participation from Picturepark also (who have uploaded two of their own papers and helped us with beta-testing). …
Continue reading »Elizabeth Keathley, author of Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos and owner of Atlanta Metadata Authority, has written an article for DAM Foundation, where she discusses The 10 Characteristics of a Digital Asset Management System. She offers the following:…
Continue reading »Romney Whitehead, has written an article Curation Before Creation, on her own Borrowed Insight blog where she discusses how the net overhead of managing media has not really diminished with the introduction of digital media, but has merely transferred from one type of activity to another. To illustrate this …
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