At the end of February, we covered the forthcoming release of a new Digital Asset Management book by Elizabeth Keathley of of Atlanta Metadata and also DAM Foundation: “Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos”. The title was released by publishers Apress …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion, who specialise in low-cost desktop single user and client/server DAM solutions, have announced version 3.0 of their solution. Some of the major additions are:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, today announced the new version 7.1 of their Widen Media Collective SaaS DAM solution. The new features include:
Adobe announced the new release of their Experience Manager suite today. There are updates across Sites, Assets, Apps, Communities and Forms elements. For assets, they offer the following in their press release:
“Dynamic, interactive media experiences, including video, can now be authored and delivered across devices. Advanced video …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, one of our featured DAM Vendors, NetXposure upgraded their flagship NetX DAM software to version 7. The new features include:
Optimity Advisers, who count a number of DAM luminaries among their staff (including, David Lipsey and John Horodyski) have recently published a whitepaper Metadata Matters. They have decided to call them ‘Orange Papers’, presumably because everyone else uses ‘Whitepaper’ and their logo is orange too (fortunately the text …
Continue reading »Ian Matzen, writing on his Tame Your Assets blog. has written an introductory article to Facet Analysis, which is the process of de-constructing metadata subject domains into discrete elements (facets) so they can be re-assembled in a modular fashion to provide faceted search features for DAM systems and other …
Continue reading »David Diamond has written an article for CMSWire this week about digital assets getting lost in DAM system. The basis of the article is a surprisingly common scenario where users upload digital assets and then either they or their colleagues can never find them again. David cites five reasons …
Continue reading »At DAM News we have recently been working on a dedicated site where those who need some Digital Asset Management expertise (including supplying software products) can post up their requirements. I am pleased to say that DAM Projects is now live and open for anyone who wishes to post. My …
Continue reading »Consultants, Optimity Advisors, who have both David Lipsey and John Horodyski on their staff are hosting a metadata seminar in New York City on March 31st 2014 between 6pm and 9pm. The session will cover various metadata related topics:
Earlier this week, stock media leviathan, Getty Images announced that is was going to allow some limited cost-free non-commercial usage of its library of 35m images. They have to be housed within their own embed player which is similar to the method employed by YouTube where the media resides on …
Continue reading »An article by Nish Patel, CEO of ConceptShare, discusses what his firm calls Creative Production Supply Chains. It was published last month and has been on my list of items to cover for DAM News for a while now. Part of the reason for the delay has been …
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