Category: DAM Education

Recently, I have had cause to go through some prospective DAM solutions that clients have expressed an interest in and do some preliminary exercises with a view to shortlisting a few.  One of the requirements fairly high up on the list was security of their assets.  The client in question …

Australian Digital Asset Management VAR, DataBasics, have provided a condensed presentation where they list the top ten DAM solution implementation mistakes that users tend to make:

• Starting without a complete business plan
• Not understanding what DAM is
• Failing to consider metadata
• Not providing a dedicated project management resource
• Failing

Over on DAM Guru this month, there is an interview with Elizabeth Keathley and Mark Davey from DAM Foundation about the training courses they offer.  In particular, they discuss the trials they faced when attempting to partner with an established ‘bricks and mortar’ educational institution:

“Recognizing the …

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 …

All this week, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) have given over their Strictly Business blog to members of the DAM Guru Program (DGP), who are posting a series of information articles to explain more about the benefits of DAM for photographers.  Ben Smidt, who manages DGP sent …

CMSWire are running another series of DAM-related articles this week (and next, I believe). The focus this time around is more practical stuff about how to get more out of the technology, as opposed to the comment and opinion feature series they have run.  There have been a few good …

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:

• Do you know what your assets are?
• Do you know where your assets

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).  …

The DAM Guru Program established by vendor, Picturepark, is celebrating its first anniversary this week.  Now with 400 members (including myself) it does appear to be gaining some industry-wide support, in no small part due to the fact that the sponsors have been assiduously careful to not use …

In the previous two parts to this article, I examined these topics:

• Identifying sources of existing assets
• Lessons that could be learned from how things were done before (and why)
• Legacy systems
• User feedback and behavioural data

In this final item, I will discuss the issues you need to …

This is the follow-up to the first part of this article published a couple of weeks ago.  In that item, I discussed two issues:

• Current sources of assets
• Lessons that could be learned from previous approaches

One of the points covered in some depth was the likely existence of …