Category: Taxonomy And Metadata

In the first part of this series of articles, I looked at why there is a need for efficient metadata operations management. While the use of DAM systems to hold digital assets has increased significantly over recent years, the quality of the cataloguing of many assets is becoming an …

Recently, I have been looking for some new terms to go into the community DAM Glossary project which we set up last year. As to be expected, there are an ever-growing range of candidates and part of the problem is deciding how to prioritise which ones should get written up …

Ian Matzen, writing on his Tame Your Assets blog. has written an introductory article to Facet Analysis, which is the process of de-constructing metadata subject domains into discrete elements (facets) so they can be re-assembled in a modular fashion to provide faceted search features for DAM systems and other …

David Diamond has written an article for CMSWire this week about digital assets getting lost in DAM system.  The basis of the article is a surprisingly common scenario where users upload digital assets and then either they or their colleagues can never find them again.  David cites five reasons …

David Riecks has written an article for DAM Coalition: Why Can’t I Lock Up My Photo Metadata?  where he discusses various options for preventing the modification of metadata.  He also explains why it will be difficult to achieve with currently available image formats and the tools to manipulate them without …

Subscribers to David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary group may have seen a post by David himself: why app developers / providers have such a dim view of their users intellectual property.  This describes an exchange he had with developers on EyeEm, including this response:

“it’s definitely not a technical challenge. …

Ralph Windsor, contributing editor to DAM News has written a special feature article: An Introduction To DAM Findability Techniques.  The item covers some simple techniques for enhancing the findability of assets and distils advice and various other posts from a number of other authors also.  Most of the article …

John Horodyski of DAM Education has written an introductory article about metadata for CMSWire.  The level is relatively basic and maybe more suitable as an executive overview than for anyone who has done the rounds with a typical DAM implementation, however, the second page has some useful pointers about …

This Archimedia article has some tips about creating controlled vocabularies.  There are two parts to the item, this is from the second:

“Try to think of what your image or asset is about, stay away from jargon words and acronyms. Examples:
Jargon words: ACID RAIN, DUE DILIGENCE, TEAM PLAYER, …

In this CMSWire article, David Diamond discusses some methods using timelines as a means to help catalogue assets.  I found this quite a good item because it offers some practical advice on how to catalogue, which is the challenge that presents itself shortly after you have realised you need …

Andrew Manone has written this post on his own Damaged Workflow blog with a topical twist (for those that follow the US elections, at least) where he adapts the “Vote early, vote often” message to “Tag early, tag often”:

“The tongue-in-cheek phrase about voting  when applied to metadata would …