Duplicate asset detection is one of these deceptively simple problems that illustrates why DAM initiative implementation is rarely quite as straightforward as everyone involved hopes. This is an issue which crops up quite a lot when I get asked to help clients either review their existing DAM systems (or help …
Continue reading »A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.
Product Asset Management: Driving the Digital Supply Chain
Writing on CMSWire.com, Alan Porter from vendor, Nuxeo, discusses a term he refers to as ‘Product Asset Management’ which is essentially about …
Continue reading »As some readers who are also DAM Guru members will be aware, DAM Guru is no longer owned by Picturepark (whose marketing director, David Diamond, conceived the programme back in 2013). As of May, this has transferred to Daydream, who also operate DAM News. In light of this, we …
Continue reading »Over the last few years, I have witnessed a steady increase in the number of consulting clients asking for assistance in helping them select DAM vendors to supply the software used for their DAM initiatives. This has been something of a surprise as in the past, my firm saw less …
Continue reading »In the past on DAM News, we used to receive details of vendor updates to their DAM products quite frequently. For a while, we referred to it as a ‘features arm race’ where vendors competed with each other to make announcements about new functionality they were hastily adding to their …
Continue reading »Last week, we published an educational report, How To Buy Enterprise DAM Systems which quite a few people have since downloaded. I have received several requests asking if any form of accreditation would be offered. We did this for our Digital Asset Supply Chain for Marketers course and a number …
Continue reading »Next Friday 17th April at 1pm ET, Frank DeCarlo will be hosting a webinar panel discussion The Metadata Management Evolution: ‘What has changed… and what needs to happen?’ The participants are Erin McElrath, Mark Walter, Maria Efstathiou, and Lauren Dohr. I have been involved in a …
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Back in January, we launched the DAM System Open Specification, which was an attempt to get a detailed description of some common features of a typical DAM at different levels (basic, intermediate and advanced). We have recently added an ‘attachments’ feature which allows files like screenshots, diagrams and documents …
Continue reading »Jeffrey Marino has reviewed the IEN Third Annual DAM Practitioners’ Summit for DAM News in this special feature article:
“Insight Exchange Network hosted its annual gathering of DAM professionals late last January at The Third Annual DAM Practitioners’ Summit in NYC. There was also a pre-event mixer at …
Continue reading »On our features section, I have published an article: Re-Visiting Pure and Applied Digital Asset Management which (among other topics) discusses the on-going debate over changing the name of Digital Asset Management to Content Management:
“In the same way the discussion about the three letter acronym has occupied way …
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Over on the DAM Guru blog, there is some feedback from attendees of the IEN 2020 DAM Practitioners Summit held in New York last month. The contributors include Frank De Carlo, Jennifer Tyner, Ian Matzen, Christine Conley-Smith, Margie Foster and Jennifer Pflaumer. The following is by Ian Matzen in …
Continue reading »Today we have released the DAM News Open Specification for a Digital Asset Management System that describes in some detail the features and capabilities that a reference DAM might be expected to provide. The document is grouped by 20 functional areas (at the time of writing) and is further sub-divided …
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