Category: Industry Events

Createasphere, have announced that they are now accepting nominations for the 2nd DAMMY Awards.  The categories include:

• DAMMY of the Year
• Best Storage, Archive and/or Preservation Solution
• Best Example of Asset & Media Repurposing
• Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management During the Acquisition of Content

One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains, have announced a Webinar: “How to Choose Between SaaS or Installed Digital Asset Management” that will take place on Thursday 24th March at 1pm (ET):

“The surviving pure-play SaaS vendors have gotten more capable, but still lack a complete …

DAM vendor, Extensis are holding a free seminar on image management for Heritage and Cultural organisations on 23rd March at Kew Gardens in London (UK):

“Extensis is hosting a one day free seminar on the management, storage and distribution of digital images, graphics and documents within heritage and …

NISO (National Information Standards Organization) are holding a webinar about metadata standards on 16th March at 1pm (US Eastern Time).  With a wide array of metadata initiatives in circulation across both DAM and ECM, this is certainly a hot topic and one which provokes a lot of discussion and debate.…

The O’Reilly Strata Conference: The Business Of Data, runs from September 19-21 this year in Times Square, New York City.  The conference is aimed at senior executives and the opportunities offered from leveraging large data sets:

• How data analytics transforms business and management
• Best practices from early adopters and

A key event for those interested in the implications and impact of cloud computing for the IT industry, the annual “All About The Cloud 2011” will be held from 23rd to 26th May at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.  Topics discussed will include security and the collation and storage of …

The Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference runs from March 2-3 2011 at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, California.  The conference will feature speakers such as Lela Abbott from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Alan Pelez Sharp of Real Story Group:

“This two day professional conference is comprised …

The Publishers Association and the Centre for Publishing will be holding the latest in their series of Digital Publishing Forum seminars on Wednesday 12th January 2011 at University College London. Aiming to brief publishers on technical developments, market trends and legal issues in the area of digital publishing, keynote speakers …

Publisher O’Reilly have announced the 2011 dates for their Tools of Change Conference which will take place February 14-16, 2011 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers (USA).  The conference deals with the topic of publishing technologies with a particular focus on emerging platforms like iPads, HTML5 but also …

The JISC Digital Media and Copyright Seminar takes place in Taunton, Somerset (UK) on 2nd December 2010.  The seminar will include a variety of digital media copyright subjects:

• Dealing with multi-layer intellectual property rights in digital media.
• Identifying approaches to dealing with the uncertainties of copyright law in relation to

IKS are running two workshops in Amsterdam between Thursday and Friday 9th-10th December 2010 to show how their semantic applications can be used to enhance Content Management Systems.  The first day is designed to demonstrate the benefits of their technology and the second is a more practical session involving integration …

Leela Abbot writing on her personal blog describes a recent DAM meetup she conducted in New York.  She describes the session in some detail with descriptions of the Q&A sessions, including questions such as these:

• How do you introduce the topic of Digital Asset Management to those who are hearing