I have recently written a special feature article for DAM News on the subject of Generative AI (or ‘Synthetic Content’ as it also referred to). In The Implications of Generative AI for Digital Asset Management I analyse what Generative AI is, look at some of the available technologies and try …
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Regular readers will recall that a few months ago, I reviewed MerlinOne’s NOMAD (NO MetAData) search tool which allows images to be found using text keywords searches without entering descriptive metadata.
Recently, I had the opportunity to check out an AI search tool developed by a Dutch firm called EMRAYS…
Continue reading »Mark Milstein, who we recently interviewed for DAM News has contributed a feature article with the title, Will Synthetic Stock Content Save DAM? The piece follows on the themes briefly discussed in his interview and Mark explains some of the core concepts of synthetic media and why it is …
Continue reading »Last week, we interviewed CEO of MerlinOne, David Tenenbaum for DAM News. David has also contributed a feature article The Future of DAM and AI where he discusses some innovations his firm has been working on, specifically with reference to a technology called NOMAD (NoMetAData)
“For the last 30 …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, Kodak announced they were going to launch a crypto digital asset token called Kodakcoin:
“Utilizing blockchain technology, the KODAKOne platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the …
Continue reading »In his Bits On Blocks blog, Antony Lewis has written an article titled: The emergence of blockchains as Activity Registers about the two different roles Blockchains play. For those unfamiliar with the term, blockchains are the distributed ledger technologies used to record transactions in commodity digital assets (aka ‘cryptocurrencies’) …
Continue reading »As regular readers will be aware, I have been following various automated visual recognition tools for some time now and so far remain underwhelmed by the results (especially compared with the marketing hype that typically accompanies them). A few months back, I checked out the Google Vision API with some …
Continue reading »The Extensis DAM Learning Centre (which is included in our list of featured DAM resources) has recently published an article by Toby Martin called Emerging Trends In The DAM Marketplace. The article came out about a week before Extensis’ latest Portfolio product release announcement, as such, this …
Continue reading »Martin Wilson, a director of Bright Interactive (the developers of the Asset Bank DAM solution) has contributed an article for DAM News: AI In DAM: The Challenges And Opportunities. This is related to the Google VISION API review piece I wrote recently, as well as an item …
Continue reading »Recently, while researching more blockchain-related innovations, I came across Mediachain. This is a protocol intended to make it easier for distributed applications to access provenance information about digital assets in a de-centralised manner (i.e not held on a pre-designated server). Any modifications to either the asset essence or its …
Continue reading »Over the last few weeks, there have been a series of press releases from various tech firms, notably Google and Adobe about technologies which claim to automate the image cataloguing process. A few DAM vendors have already integrated the Google Cloud VISION API which is product-agnostic and designed to be …
Continue reading »Last year, I wrote an article about the future role of data storage exchanges where capacity could be traded and considered how they might work and what risks they might introduce. While researching some of our other recent feature articles, I came across something called MaidSafe which appears set …
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