Category: Industry Standards

Earlier this week, we launched the SimpleDAM an open source API protocol for interoperability between Digital Asset Management solutions and the technologies that integrate with them.  I have written a longer article about this which you can read in our features section:

“Standards and interoperability protocols have been talked …

We are pleased to announce that the Digital Asset Management Open Specification now fully supports contributions from registered members (registration is free).  The updated interface now provides detailed contribution information from members, who also have the ability to provide further information and a short biography on their own public profile …

Today we have released the DAM News Open Specification for a Digital Asset Management System that describes in some detail the features and capabilities that a reference DAM might be expected to provide.  The document is grouped by 20 functional areas (at the time of writing) and is further sub-divided …

A W3C Digital Asset Management Industry Business Ontology community group has recently been started and is chaired by Emily Kolvitz and Aaron Bradley:

“The mission of Digital Asset Management Business Ontology Community Group is to propose, discuss, create and maintain extensions to schema.org related to the Digital Asset Management …

Continuing our Finding Signs Of Life In DAM series, in this next piece, I have begun to consider DAM interoperability, which I contend is one of the factors why DAM has failed to gain traction in enterprises:

“Why is interoperability important to DAM progressing as an enterprise …

Andreas Mockenhaupt Director of Professional Services at DAM vendors, Canto has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Why Interoperability Standards Are So Critical To The Future Of Digital Asset Management.  The article describes the OASIS-sponsored CMIS4DAM standard which has been in-progress since September 2013:

“The concept behind …

Earlier this week, OASIS released some press about the proposed CMIS4DAM standard:

“Members of the OASIS open standards consortium are defining a profile of the widely adopted Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard for use in Digital Asset Management (DAM). The work of the new OASIS CMIS4DAM Technical Committee …

Ian Matzen wrote an article with the title: Statement of Core Values on his Tame Your Assets blog about a month ago, but I have only just got the opportunity to read it properly and write a response.  The post is timely because there are a number of DAM standards …

Those readers with good memories might recall there were some moves from standards organisation, OASIS, last year to establish a DAM metadata interoperability standard which could integrate the numerous media related metadata protocols encountered in DAM under the banner of CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services).  As ever with achieving consensus …

What’s up with PLUS and Why you Should Care appeared on the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) site last month and is an introduction to the work of PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) and their image registry in particular.  This is an area that anyone involved in …

Two weeks ago, I posted a summary of a telephone conference held on 16th September hosted by web standards organisation, OASIS for those with an interest in DAM interoperability to discuss how the CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) standard might be utilised.  The second call was held on 2nd …

Sarah Saunders, from photo metadata consultancy, Electric Lane gives an overview of a presentation she delivered at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference held in London earlier this year in regard to ‘Orphan Works‘.  This a fairly hot topic in the whole image rights industry and covers the use …