Category: Taxonomy And Metadata

Henrik de Gyor, host of the popular Another DAM Podcast website, has recently published an online Metadata Management Survey over at its sister site Another DAM Blog.

“Even though metadata is understood as an investment and a necessity today, very few people actually want to spend the time …

Peter Flood CEO of AIDA Content Management, Inc  has contributed a feature article on the concept of In Frame Time Based Descriptive (IFTBD) Metadata which is a concept Mark Milstein, Managing Director of Microstocksolutions has devised:

“In Frame Time Based Descriptive Metadata (IFTBD) is the capability …

Rebecca Schneider, content professional and Director of Content Experience at strategy agency AvenueCX, has kindly given us permission to make her presentation material for the recent IEN DAM Practitioner’s Summit available as a download from our DAM Whitepapers repository.  In her presentation, focused on the use (and …

Last week, Graham Allan  wrote an article over on LinkedIn with some great points which echo those we have made previously on DAM News about digital asset supply chains:

“A modern DAM is used for creative workflows, as an API-integrated source of truth for other information and content …

Ahren Lehnert, Senior Manager at Knowledge organisation solutions provider Synaptica has recently published an article that examines the effects of bias in the content cycle.  To kick off his study and set the scene, he revisits an incident that occurred over three years ago when Google’s facial recognition …

My co-contributor, Spencer Harris, has written the first DAM News feature article of 2018: The DAM Difference: Filename vs Metadata.  In this item, Spencer discusses the value of filenames for digital assets:

“Think of your asset as a coin: it has monetary value, and when its use …

John Horodyski has recently written an article entitled: Metadata Matters … it’s everything which explains the business justification for investing in metadata analysis and management:

“There has never been a more important time to make data a priority and to have a road map for delivering value from it …

I have written a feature article for DAM News on the use of AI in combination with digital asset supply chains (which seems to be the hot topic of the day at present).

“DAM vendors who are seeking to gain some kind of competitive advantage with their use of …

Annella Mendoza has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Metadata And The Findability Of Assets.  In the piece, she discusses how metadata is integral to the findability of digital assets and how this has a direct relationship on how likely (or not) a DAM solution is to be …

The New Jersey DAM Meetup Group held a webinar last week on metadata automation which they posted a recording of to YouTube.  The discussion is lead by Frank A. DeCarlo and Deb Fanslow.  The panel is David Riecks, Spencer Harris, Mark Walter and Peter Parker.  The …

Writing on LinkedIn, Mike Doane has published an article with the title Can taxonomy survive the Trough of Disillusionment?  In the item, he discusses the recent featuring of Enterprise Taxonomy and Ontology Management on the Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle.  Mike speculates whether taxonomy can survive its inclusion in the …

Over the last few years, while working with enterprise clients, a common theme has been emerging in relation to their corporate taxonomies and the governance strategies applied to them (or lack thereof in both cases, as I will explain).  The catalyst for this has often been integration between their DAM …