Category: Emerging DAM Technologies

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 …

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’) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

As described in my Appreciating The Value Of Your Digital Assets post earlier this week, this year we’re going to be investigating far more of the metadata and infrastructure side of digital assets, because that is where I believe the more important (and therefore, interesting) activity is taking place.…

One of the recent themes in DAM with the corporate users I deal with, is the role of mobile.  When asked to explain the reasoning behind their interest, some commonly-held misunderstandings about our subject are sometimes revealed.  These are partly related to topics I mentioned a few weeks ago in …

Andrew Reid, writing on his EOSHD blog discusses CineMartin’s release of CINEC v2.7 which allows H.265 encoding:

“This low data rate and file size makes all kinds of magic possible, because at the same data rate as the old codec you get a massive leap in image quality and …

This post by Chirag Mehta discussed the role of Gamification with special reference to enterprise applications.  For those who has unfamiliar with the term, Gamification means the application of gaming techniques to create more engaging user experiences.  Chirag argues (correctly in my view) that flow and a simple, uninterrupted user …