Category: Industry News

A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.

MediaValet – Do You Need Dropbox or DAM?

DAM vendor MediaValet have published an infographic outlining five questions to consider when using Dropbox versus a fully-fledged DAM system.  Although some of the …

A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.

DAM Procurement Considerations Part 1: On-Premise vs. Software-as-a-Service

DAM vendor MediaValet have recently published part one of a two-part series on DAM procurement.  This first instalment focuses on the differences between two …

A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.

An Open Vocabulary Tagging Experiment for Discoverability

Accidental Taxonomist author Heather Hedden has recently embarked on a tag comparison experiment with one of her colleagues.  The aim of the exercise is to …

The eagerly anticipated 2017 DAM salary survey has now been published and is available to download for DAM News subscribers.   As some readers may recall, this was formerly managed by the now defunct DAM Foundation and has been resurrected this under the banner of the newly formed DAM Federation…

A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.

Taxonomy Hierarchical Relationship Issues

Taxonomy specialist and author Heather Hedden has recently posted an article dealing with the issue of broader and narrower terms within hierarchical relationships.  Discussing the challenges faced when …

A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.

Attributes of Effective DAM Consultants

My co-contributor Ralph Windsor has recently published part one of his series on what makes an effective DAM consultant.  In this article, Ralph examines what he considers …

The deadline for vendors who want to participate in the 2018 DAM Vendors Pricing Survey is fast approaching at the end of this week on Friday 31st August.  If you represent a vendor and did not get sent the details, please contact us and myself or one of my colleagues …

A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.

Getting Organized: Taxonomies, Keywords and Tags

This handy little entrée into categorisation and tagging from Canto explains the fundamental roles of taxonomy and metadata within DAM systems.  It makes some noteworthy distinctions …

Today DAM Federation, a new DAM industry association officially launches.  This is a loose association of affiliated Digital Asset Management community information and educational resources of which DAM News is a member:

“DAM Federation is a group of affiliated Digital Asset Management information services providers who have a …

We are once more running our DAM vendor pricing survey 2018 edition and are now inviting responses from vendors.  This is the second time we have conducted the survey, the first edition was published in 2016.

Earlier this year, we sent a link to a form on our DAM …

Today, we are launching an industry consortium to research and discuss the role of Digital Asset Supply Chains with a view to deriving both some standards and technology that can be applied to make the theories explored become a reality.  Digital Asset Supply Chain (DASC) projects have become increasingly prevalent …

Back in November, we announced that we were reviving the DAM Salary Survey with the (gratefully received and much appreciated) assistance of Elizabeth Keathley and Deb Fanslow.

“All responses are anonymous and you are not asked for your name, nor email address etc. There are 35 questions, …